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

[271.]

About 1217. Confirma|tion to Oseney, by Henry Doyly II, as feudal superior, of no. 270.

TO all þ^e chyldren of owr holy modur the church to the which thys present wrytyng shall come Henry Doylly, owr lorde the Kynges constable, helth. Knowe ye all John Gray, sometyme Bysshop of Norewhich, the church of Swereforde, with þe chapell of Sevewell, and the pertinences, the which he Gate of owr yifte, as owr charter the which þerof he had witnesseth, to the church of Saynte marye of Oseneye, and to the chanons there seruyng god, in his laste wille to haue i-lefte. And we, þat that of the foresaide Bysshope vppon

þe foresayde church with the pertinencis whas i-doo hauyng ['ratum habentes et gratum.'] rate and kyndely or plesyd, the same church, with his per|tinences, to be had to the foresayde chanons haue i-Grauntyd and conferme. And that this owre graunte rate And ferme abyde foreuer, hit with this present writyng and owre seale suryng make stronge. The witnessys, et cetera.