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

[145.]

About 1200. Grant to John of St. John, clerk, by his father William, of a mill, messuage, and viz. in one field,8 acres of old land and 6 of increase; and, in the other field, the same amount.

KNOWE thoo that be present and to be that [I], William of Saynte John, ȝafe, grauntid, and deliueryd, to John my norisch [The word 'norisch' = 'alumnus' was perhaps chosen because of the disrepute attaching to the marriage of clerics. In nos. 143, 147, William is said to be father, and John, son. The Latin is: 'Iohanni nutrito meo.'] , the mylle of Barton, with all his pertinences, that I held and had of Odo, Knyȝght of Barton, and of his Eyres, that is of the ffe of Sir Robert Arsic and of Dame lorette of ffontaynes and of Robert ffolioth, for his homage and seruice, with a mese and crofte and ['et cum tota terra campestri, que pertinet.'] all the felde londe the which longeth to the same Mille,

that is to say, in j. felde, ij. acris in Dennessewey [Demnesweye.] , and ij. acris Bi the mede, and ij. acris in Willanesdene [Wylauesdene.] , and ij. vndur the langehale, and ij. By schuckelawe, and ij. By-ȝonde the way of Bamforde, and halfe j. By foxwell, and halfe j. By Caldewell, and j. By langlaslade [Langlaweslade.] ; and in the oþer felde, ij. acris in the northe of the crosse By the wey, and halfe j. in Raggeweyfurlong [Rugweyesfurlung.] , and iij. half-acris in Crotlande, and iij. halfe-acris in myddulfurlong, and ij. at slo tre forde, and j. in the Northe of the way, and j. atte sloo tre forde, and j. halfe in Etefurlonge, and ij. in langefurlong, and ij. at sloo tre forde By the way, whereof vj. acris ben of newe feffement of myne Demayne, and viij. aforenamed of olde feffement of iij. feys, Euenlike and [For 'and' read 'in': 'Similiter in alio campo.'] the other felde: to be had & to holde, to hym and to hys Eyres, of me, or [to] whome-so-Euer (or [Omit the bracketed words, inserted in error.] all other) to ȝeve, to selle, or assyne he willeth, frely quietly and pesibly, and quite fro all seruice and exaccion al so much as longeth to me or to myne, as charters and confirmacions the which of the foresaide Mille I had, By seruyce of the chefe lordes, witnesse. Thes witnesses, et cetera