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 1240. Extract from charter by Philippa, countess of Warwick, granting two mea|dows near Oseney, and pas|ture-rights in West|Oseney.

KNOWE all men, et cetera. withinne ffurþermor that þ^e seyde Countesse [Philippa Basset, co-heiress of Thomas Basset, lord of Headington, widow of Henry de Newburgh (died 1229), 6th earl of Warwick.] hath i-grauntid for her and for her heyres to þe Abbot and Couent and [folio 13b] to þere successours that þey haue þere closes in goode pece and holde þem foreuer, þat is to say, þe close of þe hamme [of the fee [Added from the Latin.] ] of Doylly and of Seynte Walerye be-hynde þe fullyng [mill [Added from the Latin.] ] of Oseney, and þe close that þey haue of þe ffee of Henry Symeon, et cetera. as within þe title of 'Hedynton,' in þe which charter is i-conteyned that 'þabbot may haue xx^ti bestys in Westoseney [An island, between streams of Thames, immediately to the west of the abbey, as figured in map ii. to Wood's City of Ox|ford.] after þ^e hey is i-mowe and i-leuyd vn-to Myȝhelmasse and after myȝhelmasse as many as he will.'