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

[XVIII. Of Gosford]

[115.] A composicion [A translation of the deed, made from the Latin of the Oseney cartulary at Christ Church, is printed in Stapleton's Three Oxfordshire Parishes (1893), p. 360: but the technical term trentale is mis-read.] Bitwene vs and þ^e Hospitalariys of þ^e chapell of Goseforde.

1234/5, March 19. In spite of opposition by Oseney, as rector of Kidlington, the Knights Hospitallers, by papal privi|lege, were al|lowed a chapel in their house at Gosford, but on condition of excluding ordi|nary parishion|ers, and of refusing fees for saying yearly or monthly intercessory masses for souls of persons deceased. Same terms to apply, if needed, in other Oseney parishes.

THE prior and Supprior of Dunstable, by þ^e Commaundement of pope gregorye [Commission dated at Spoleto, July 14, 1232.] , after Diuerse altercacions i-made bitwene þe

parties et cetera. þe strife bitwene them this frendely Ende restid, that is to say, that þe saide Hospitalarijs haue þe saide oratorye of Goseforde, after þe tenour of þere priuileges to þem i-ȝeve of þ^e pope, and þ^e procuratour of þe same Hos|pitalarijs, to [i.e. appointed to represent them in this suit.] þat specially i-ȝeve In Jugement, in the name of þ^e Hospitalarijs with goode feith promised noþer the Hospitalar ['nec hospitalarius nec canonicus secularis.'] noþer the seculer Chaplen parisshens of þe modur church to Diuine shall admitte In the same, noþer also Annale or trentale or oony other thyng that to þ^e modur church is dewe, [folio 27b] by the Occasion of the saide ora|torie, In-to preiudice or harme of the modur churche, shall receyue or make; also þe saide procuratour promised, In the name of his lordis In Juggement, that his lordis þe saide thynges shall kepe and of there Sugetes make hit to be i-keped: þat same, if hit happe to þe saide Hospitalarijs in oþer parisshis of þ^e saide chanonns oratorijs to make, fully In goode ffeith hit shall be keped. We then, louers of pece, this composicion approuyng, with owr seles puttyng-to conferme hit, et cetera.