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

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About 1275. Sale to Oseney, by Nicholas of Weston-on|the-Green, of a hide, with messuage, crofts, and meadow (as in 205), with its bond men, subject to 6d. quit|rent to Tew manor (as the mesne lord). Purchase|money, £150.

KNOWE tho that been present And to bee þat I, Nycoll of Weston, ȝafe and grauntid, and with my present charter confermyd, to god and to þe church of Seynte marie of Oseney and to William Abbot and to þe chanons þere seruyng [God], where I haue i-wollyd me to be i-beried, j. plowlonde, with the pertinences, In the towne and feldis of Edburbury, with my chefe mese, as with medis and Croftes, and with homages and seruices of my free tenauntes, and with my bonde men and þere catall and seruices & sequelis, and all þat in the foresaide towne or feldis I had or myȝght haue, withoute oony reteynyng to me or to myne heyres: to be had and to be holde, to þe saide church ande chanons, of me and myne heyres, In-to pure and perpetuell almes, al so moch as perteyneth to me and to myne heyres, ȝeldyng þerof for me and my heyres to Sir Hugh of Tywe vj. d. ȝerely, and Dewe seruices to the chefe lordes of the ffee. And I, Nycoll, and myne heyres, the foresaide

plowe of londe, with all his pertinences, to the saide church and chanons, agaynste all cristen men and Juys, by the foresaide seruice, schall warantiȝe, aquite, And Defende. And if we mowe not, we schall ȝeve agayne to þem CC. marke and xxv. the which for the foresaide londe to me before-handes þaye paied, with-inne A moneth In the which þay been i-axid, vndur payne of xx. li. to be payde to þ^e Kyng. In-to witnesse, et cetera.