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

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About 1260. Suit by Oseney, to compel the rector of Barford to allow Oseney ⅔rds of the tithe of the demesne|land. Verdict for Oseney, who did not press for arrears and costs.

KNOWE all men to the which this present writyng schall come that where A strife was i-mevyd, by the popys auctorite, afore the lordys Deene and chaunceler of Sarisbury, bitwene þabbot and couent of Oseneye, of the oone partie, and Hugh person ['rectorem,' in the Latin, is always Englished 'parson' in this book.] of Bereforde, of the other, vppon ij. parties of smale tithis comyng forthe of the Demayne of Syr Roger Verdun of Bereford [Name noted in the margin.] , of þ^e which tithis the saide chanons by the same Hugh saide them-selfe i-spoylyd, At þ^e laste, the stryfe, of the consent of bothe parties, vndur this forme restid: þat is to say, the saide Hugh, as to the foresaide tithis,

of the saide chanons the ryȝght fully knowlegid-agayne ['recognovit.'] , and þoo tithis ffrely and quietly to take to them he grauntid, and hee schall not let hem but that thaye mowe take the saide tithis, and þese hee byhete ['promisit.'] by goode feyth; And the sayde chanons, to the same Hugh, arrerages of the foresaide tithis, and expenses in the stryfe i-made, relesyd: And, of the consente of the parties, [there [Added from the Latin.] was reserved jurisdiction to the judges to compel the parties] to the kepyng of the saide composicion. And in-to witnesse of this thyng, to this [folio 60b] composicion were i-hanged the synes of the Jugges, also with the parties.