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

[151.]

About 1240. Confirma|tion to Oseney, by Richard Foliot, as feudal superior, of the legacy in no. 143, as in no. 145, subject to 2s. quit|rent to his manor.

KNOWE þoo that Be present and to come that I, Richard ffolioth of Rolesham, for þe helth of my sowle and of þe sowles of my aunceturs and successours, haue i-grauntid and with my present Charter confermed, to [Read 'for': 'pro me.'] me and my heyres for Euer, as muche as to me and my heyres perteyneth, to god and to þ^e church of Saynte Marye of Oseney and to þe chanons þere seruyng god, the Mille of Barton, with þe mese, and Crofte, and all þe felde londe to þe same Mille perteynyng, and with all his pertinences in the towne and withowte þe towne, þe which Mille, with all his pertinences, John of Saynte John, clerke, to þ^e same Howse of Osenaye ȝafe, Bequethid, and assined: to Be holde & to Be had, to þe saide chanons for Euer, in-to ffree and perpetuell almes, well and in pece, with all integrite or þ^e holenesse In the which William of Saynte John, the ffadur of þe saide John clerke, all þe foresaide thynges had and helde, ȝeldyng to me and to myne heyres ȝerely ij. s. off sterlynges at iiij. termes (that is to say, at cristmasse vj. d., and at Estur vj. d., and at þe ffest of saynte John þe Baptiste vj. d., and at þe ffest of Saynte Miȝghell vj. d.) for all seruice, secular exaccion, and Demaunde, to me or to my heyres per|teynyng. And that this My graunte, et cetera.