[256.]
1255/6, Feb. 2. Surrender to Oseney, by James le Blund, of the quit-rent reserved in no. 255.
TO all cristen men to þe which þis present writyng schall come Jamys lee Blunde of ffauflore helth. To þe know|lege of all yowe I wille hit come me, for me and for myne heyres, at Candelmasse the yere of our lorde Ml CClv., [to [Added from the Latin.] have quit-claimed the canons of Oseney for ever of two marks of silver] In the which þey were i-holde to me yerely by cause of ij. roddis [Read 'yardlands': 'racione duarum virgatarum'; see no. 255.] of londe with a mese þe which þay haue i-holde of me In Hokenorton, (þat [Brought in by the translator when he found he had made the omission above noted.] is for to saye, quite to haue i-clamyd to þe chanons of Oseneye ffor Euer of ij. marke yerely); wherefore I wille yff that oony writyng obligatorie, of þoo ij. marke makyng mencion, in oony tyme maye bee ffounde, þat hit be broȝght fforth and hit [folio 56a] to be i-had for nowȝght. In-to witnesse, et cetera.