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

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"The English register of Oseney abbey / by Oxford, written about 1460. Ed., with an introduction and indexes, by Andrew Clark." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AHA2740.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2025.

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About 1230. Grant to Oseney, by Robert Bernard, of a piece of land.

KNOWE þey that been now and to bee þat I Robert Bernarde of Hokenorton yafe Grauntid and with this present charter confermyd, for me and myne heyres for Euer, to god and to þe church of Seynte marie of Oseney and to þe chanons þere seruyng god, all that parte of the londe the which [is] of my courte þe which lieth bitwene my chefe howse and the howse of Adam Sparewe and hit conteyneth þe Space of xxxviij. fote In brede and xxviij. fote In þ^e lenght: to be hold and to be had, to þe saide chanons, In-to ffre pure and perpetuell almys, well and In pece, ffrely and quietly, to be i-bildid and i-disposid after þat þey seme best to þem to be goode. And I Robert and myne heyres all the foresaide thynges to þe saide chanons schall warantiȝe and all seculer seruice exaccion and Demaunde schall Aquite and Defende agaynste all pepull for Euer. And that this yevyng, et cetera.