The english register of Godstow nunnery, near Oxford : written about 1450 / edited with an introduction by Andrew Clark.

the nuns of Stratford, 2s.; of the land of Martin listor, 3s. 8d.; of the land of Clement clerk, 8d.; and of his own land, 4d.

[folio 191b] A licence I-made to Edmond Mabaunke that he myght yeve to the mynchons of Godestowe one mese in Fletestrete in the subarbis of london, notwithstandyng the statute of mortmayn.

1325, July 16. Licence in mortmain, by Ed|ward II, allowing Edmund Mabanck to confer on Godstow a messuage in Fleet Street, to endow a chantry at Great Tew, Oxford|shire.

THE sentence of this licence is, that kyng Edwarde, kyng of Englond & cetera, willed to be know that, though hit were I-ordeyned and by statute I-made that hit shold not be lawfull to religious peple to entre the fee of ony man in such wise that hit shold come to morte mayne with-out his licence and of the chief lord of the which that thynge was I-holde immediatly, Natheles, by a fyne the which the welbeloued to hym in crist the abbesse of Godestowe made with hym, he graunted and yaf licence, for hym and his heires as moche as was in hym, to Edmond Mabank that he myght yeve and assigne to the forsaid Abbesse and mynchons, and to ther successours, into help of the susteynyng of a Chapelayne to synge for ever masse in the worship of our lady in the chirch of more Tywe. And he graunted to the same abbesse and Couente that they myght resceive and hold, to them and to there successours, the forsaid mese with the pertynentis of the forsaide [folio 192] Edmond for euer, as hit is I-said afore. Also by the tenoure of this present writynge he yaf speciall licence, not willyng that the forsaid Edmond or his heires or the forsaid abbesse and mynchons and ther successours by the reason or cause of the statute aforsaid shold be occasioned or greved in ony thyng therof by hym or by his heires, Savyng nathelesse to hym, and to other, seruycis therof dewe and I-wonyd. In-to witnesse of the which thynge he made to be made these his lettres patentis, hym-self beyng witnesse, atte Towre of London, the xvj. day of Iule, the xix. yere of his reigne.

[Exchequer-MS. folio iib] Licence by Roger (de Martival), bishop of Salisbury(1315-30), as feudal superior, to Edmund Maubanck.

1325, July 25. Licence in mortmain by the bishop of Salisbury, to Edmund Ma|banck, for the same purpose.

LICENCE by Roger, bishop of Sarum, allowing Edmund Maubanck to feoff Godstow in a messuage in Fletestrete,

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The english register of Godstow nunnery, near Oxford : written about 1450 / edited with an introduction by Andrew Clark.
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