and þere tenauntes haue fre entryng ande goyng oute ande fre commune to þere shepe and hogges and to all here bestes in all my maners, and that þey be not inparked or y-poyned ['or y-poyned' is an English equivalent of the preceding word: Latin is merely 'ne possint imparcari.'] but þey be i-founde in open harme; þat ['quod si contigerit.'] if hit happen, þey maye receyue þere bestes [i.e. out of the pound, on giving surety for payment of damage: cp. nos. 39, 40. The Latin is 'per vadimonium averia sua recipiant.'] and by the syȝght of lawfull men þe harme þat þere bestis haue i-do, owte of my courte, to make to be amendid: and that this my yifte and graunt ande confyrmacion of this charter be Sure and stable for euer, To this wrytyng I haue put to my seele. Thes witnesses, Theobalde archiebisshop of Canterbury, Bisshop of Wircetur Symon, Thurstane [Another mark of forgery. Thurstan died 1140. If the charter were genuine, it would have been witnessed by Henry Murdac, archbishop 1147-53.] archiebisshop of Yorke, Robert Bisshop of lyncoln, Gilbert ffilioth Herforde, Henry Doyly and Gilbert his brother, and other.
[[NOTE.—As far back as Anthony Wood's time (City of Oxford, ii. 190-2) the preceding section of the Oseney Register was felt to be a puzzle, and many of the names in it long remained untraced. The Rev. H. E. Salter, by collation of the original Oseney deeds as well as of the Registers, has solved the problem of the section and identified its names. The 'charter,' he points out, must have been invented after 1191, by tacking together several grants of earlier and later dates, without the least attempt to make them fit in with each other. The charter, by its witnesses, professes to be of date 1149, but Robert Doyly II died seven years before that. The bishop of Lincoln at the foundation of Oseney was Alexander, not Robert. The constructor of the charter may have taken the name Robert either from Alexander's predecessor, Robert Bloet (1093-1123), who during his episcopate seems to have granted a confirmation-charter to St. George's church; or from Alexander's successor, Robert de Chesnei (1147-68), who in 1149 sanctioned the grant, by Henry Doyly I, of St. George's church and its possessions to Oseney. The deed makes Oseney in 1149 possessed of Frees chapel, which in fact was the gift of Thomas of St. Walery about 1191; and of the tithes of Twycross and Warton obtained in 1187-9 by an exchange, which is fully described in the Oseney Cartulary. The list of places is confused by the jumbling together of names taken from different confirmations. Thus, the scribe gives both Perieth and Woodperry, but they are probably the same; so also, probably, Leyes and Northlye; Asshe and Tenesse; Cawdewell (Caldewell) and Goldwell.]][22.] A confirmacion off Geffrey of Iuory þe sone of Roger of Iuory off þe Same yifte.
About 1100. Pretended confirma|tion to Ose|ney (about 1249), by Jeffrey of Iveri, joint|patron (nos. 1, 3) of St. George's church, of no 21.
All men knowe that I, Gefferye of Iuorye, grauntid, and with this my present charter con [folio 6a] fermed, to god And to þe Church
