but all þynges hoole be kepid for gouernyng ['gubernatione.'] and susteynyng of them þe which þey ['concessa sunt vsibus omnimodis profi|tura.'] were i-grauntid to profite in all maner vsis, sauyng þe auctorite of Apostlis see and þe lawfull ryȝght and reuerence of þe bisshop Diocesane. þerfore if oony man of þe church or seculere persone, knowe [Read 'knowing,' 'sciens.'] this writyng of owre ordin|aunce, will ataste ['temptaverit.'] to come agaynste hit, þe secund or þe þirde tyme i-warnyd, if he amende not with conuenient satisfaccion, lacke ['potestatis honorisque sui dignitate ca|reat.'] (or lese) he þe dignyte of his powre and of his worschip, and know he hym-selfe gilty in þe Dome of god of þe wikednysse i-doo, and be he maade straunge and ferre fro the most holy body and blode of god and of oure lorde agayne-byer Ihu criste, And be he vndur [i.e. subject to the strait vengeance at the last judgement.] to þe streyte veniaunce in þe last dome; And the kepers and conseruatoures be filled with goddis blesshyng, & Joy they with þe rewarde of Euerlastyng blisse. Amen.
[19.] A confirmacion of þe chapiter of lincoln of þe churchis of Hokenorton, Cudelinton, Waterperye, Cleydon, and Stanes.
About 1200. Confirma|tion to Oseney, by the dean and chapter of Lincoln, of five rectories.
TO all soonys of owr modur þe church to þe which this present writyng shall come, Roger [Roger de Rolveston, dean of Lincoln, 1195-1223.] , Deen, and the chapiter of lincolne, euerlastyng helth in our lorde. Know ye all we to haue i-grauntid, and as muche þat perteyneth (or longeth [Alternative rendering of 'pertinet.'] ) to vs to have i-confermed, to the church of saynte marye of Oseneye and to þe chanons þere seruyng god, churchis [Stone and Waterperry, as in no. 37; the others, as in no. 12.] of Hokenorton, of Cudelyngton, of Waterperye, of Cleydon, of Stanes, with all þere pertinences, in to þere owne vsis, to be had and to be holde, also hooly and pesibli as þey holde and haue i-holde of grauntyng of worschipfull ffadurs bisshops of þe church of lincoln. And that þis grauntyng and confirmacion abide clere in tyme to be, this present writyng, with þe streng[t]h of oure seele we haue i-made hit myȝghty and stronge. These witnyssys .et cetera.
