[270.]
About 1217. Convey|ance to Oseney, by bishop John Grey's executors, of Cogges|wood, &c. (as in no. 269).
TO all þe soonys of owre hooly modur þe church to þe which þese present letters shall come, Walter by the grace of god Archiebisshope of yorke, of Inglond A primate, and master Ranulph of wareham, officiall of Norwich, and master R., Archedecun of yippeke [Perhaps Robert de Tywe, archdeacon of Suffolk (gippeswic=Ipswich)] , helth in owr lorde. Knowe ye all John Gray, of goode mynde, sometyme bysshope of Norwich, a woode that some tyme was callyd Coggeswode to the towne of Cud|lyngton perteynyng and the church of Swereforde with the chapell of Sevewell and there pertinences, [folio 59b] the which the sayde Bysshop of the yifte of Syr Henry Doylly gate, to the church of Saynte marye of Oseneye and to the chanons þere seruyng god, for the helth of his sowle, in his laste wylle lefte. Nowe we in the testament of the foresaide Bysshop executours have be i-yefe, to the saide chanons the foresaide woode and the saide church with the chapell and pertinences after that the office of owr execucion axith we have assynyd. But, last that the trowth of this thyng by succedyng of tyme myȝght be callyd in-to dowte, we þe assynyng of the foresaide thynges to the foresaide chanons of vs i-made haue i-turnyd in-to scripture, the which we thowght worthy with the puttyng to of owr sealys to strenghte.