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

þat all maner possessions, all maner goodes, nowe this same church by the offryng of true men ryȝghtfully and lawfully hath, vndewyd ['inviolata.'] to þem, and to þere successours sure and vnbroke ['inconcussa.'] Abyde. In the which, these we have avised ['duximus.'] to be schewed in þere owne namys: þat is to say, þe church [The six names are noted in the margin. 'Sheneston' is not mentioned (p. II, note 3). Stanes church (Stone near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire) was the gift of William Bracy (no. 37).] of Cudelyngton, of Weston, of Hokenorton, of cleydon, of chesterton, of Stanes; and þat was of Robert Doylly (of this church founder) in Oseney, with all dwellynges þe which he had vppon þe were þe which is of þe Milles þe which ben by þe castell of oxonforde, and tith|ynges of þe same Milles, and all þe londe þe which to þe same church with-inne the borowghe of oxonford the same forsaide Robert yafe and with his charter confermed; alle Eton, with alle thynges to hit perteynyng (oute-take þe Mille, ande sperwe|say), and twey shelyngworth of Rent þe which helde fromunde chapeleyne, And tithynges of Nicholl of Stodeham; with-inne Hokenorton, free seruyce of Hugh ffraunceys ['Hugonis franci.'] of halfe an hide, And oon ȝerde of londe; and of þe yifte of Kyng stephyn ande of thempryce, prebende of lx. s. (of bensynton, xxiiij.; of bamton, xxiiij.; of Hedyndon, xij.), And of v. s. v. d. ob. qua. with-in the borowgh of oxonforde of that londe þe which ['quae dicitur Octovirgate regis.'] is viij. ȝerdys of the Kynge, with all thynges perteynyng to hit, with customes and liberteys; of the londe ['de dono.'] of quene Alyȝ, oon hide the which lyeth by Hanberge And longeth to staunton; langeneye, with all pertinences, of the howse [Read 'gift.' The translator has mis|read 'ex dono' as 'ex domo' (cp. no. 26). Langney was one of the islands, formed by streams of Thames, in the river-flat north|west of Oxford.] of Geffrey chamburleyne of Glymton; And the londe of the ffee of Robert ffolioth, of the yifte of the same, þe which lieth in the grete strete [No. 26 shows that this is Cornmarket Street (not High Street).] of Oxon|forde; and the londe that Raph fiȝth sywarde yafe; And what|so-euer thyng in tyme to be (god beyng mercyfull) by grauntyng or ȝevyng of princis, or by offryng of true men, or in other ryȝghtfull maners, may be i-purchased ['poterunt adipisci.'] , to þem or to þere successours (Reguler lyfe i-professed) vnbroke ['inconcussa et illibata, eorum omni|modo usibus profutura.'] and undefylyd
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The English register of Oseney abbey / by Oxford, written about 1460. Ed., with an introduction and indexes, by Andrew Clark.
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