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

[27.] A confirmacion of Moolde themperice of þ^e church of Seynte George with all his pertinences.

A.D. 1149. Confirma|tion to Oseney, by Maud, em|press, of St. George's church, with its belongings (as after|wards transferred to Oseney, no. 23, by Henry Doyly I), with full manorial jurisdic|tion.

MOOLDE, themperice, Kyng Henry dowȝghter, and lady of yngelonde, to Archiebisshops Bisshops Abbotes Erles Barons shreves Mynsters and all here men, ffrenshe and English, of all Englonde, helth. Know ȝe me to have i-graunted, and con|fermed, to god and saynte Mary of Oseney and to þe Prior and to þe chanons þere seruyng god, in-to perpetuell almys, for the

helth of my lorde and myne and our ffre children ['ffre children' occurs several times: a mis-rendering of 'liberorum nostrorum'.] and for þe sowle of Kyng Henry my ffadur and ffor þe sowle of quene Moolde my modur and of owr oþer aunceturs, þe church of Saynte George þe which is in þe castell of Oxonford, with all his pertinences: þat is to say, the church of Saynte Mary mawdelen þe which is in þe strete with-oute þe northȝate, and þe londe of Walton of bothe parte [Marginal notes: 'Walton on Euery side of þe wey as the goo from Walton to the Castell.' 'the same was parcell of the prebend of Peuerell.'] of þe weye ['ex utraque parte vie per quam itur de Waltona.'] by þe which hit is i-goo fro Walton to þe castell as Waltere Archedecon helde hit, and þe londe of Cudeslawe, and of Covelay [Marginal notes: 'Cowley.' 'Note the lande in Cowley with the churche & ffredoms.'] (with þe church), And þe londe of stowe and of morton (with þe church and þe chapell), and þe londe of Worton, and of Saunforde, and ij. hides of Ernycot, with all oþer thynges to þe forsaide church of Saynte George perteynyng in tithis in men [in lands [Added from the Latin.] ] in howses and Medis and ffedynges in woode and in playne, as þe forsaide church helde fro þe tyme of them þe which foundid hit, and as Hemy Doylly and John of seynte [folio 8a] John [The family of St. John had succeeded the Iveri family (nos. 3, 22) as co-patrons of St. George's church. The grant of John de St. John is not given in the cartulary, but is extant as Brit. Mus. Add. Charter 20, 360.] grauntid and with þere seeles confermed. Wherefore I will and Surely commaunde þat þe forsaide church and chanons the forsaide tenauntries haue and holde, well and in pece, and worschipfully ffrely and quietly, with sock and sack, tol and theam, and Infangenthef, with all other customs and fredoms [Marginal note: 'the fredoms.'] þe which þey had in the tyme off Kyng Henry my fadur. Witnesses:—Robert [Robert, Henry Doyly's half-brother, was son of Edith Forne by Henry I. Wood (City of Oxford, i. 277) wrongly identifies him with Robert (Consul or 'de Caen'), earl of Gloucester, who died 1147. Joscelyn of Bailol is another witness; he was consecrated bishop of Sarum in 1142. The place is Devizes.] þe sone of þe Kyng my broþer.