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About 1250? Grant to Oseney, by John (? II) of St. John, of a messu|age, 2 curti|lages, and a dovehouse, subject to 3s. quit|rent to his manor.
KNOWE tho that Be present and to Be that I, John of Seynte John, ȝafe, grauntid, and confermed with this present charter, to god And to þe church of Seynte Marye of Oseney and to þe chanons þere seruyng god, that mese at Sanforde that is nexte to þe church towarde þe sowth, with þe curtilage that
is towarde þe sowth, [and] with þe curtilage that is towarde þe Est By the Coluerhowse, and with þe same Coluerhowse: to Be holde and to Be had, to þe same chanons for Euer, of me and myne heyres, ffrely quietly pesibly and hooly, ȝeldyng þerof ȝerely In ij. termes of the ȝere iij. s. (that is to say, at þe ffest of Seynte Miȝghell, xviij d.; and in þe Annunciacion of Saynte Marie, xviij. d.) for all seculer seruice, exaccion, and Demaunde, to me or to my heyres perteynyng. And I and myne heyres schall warantiȝe the saide Mese to þe saide chanons for Euer agaynste all men. And in-to witnesse, et cetera.