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

forsaid dame Elene, here heires, or her assignes, into pure and perpetuel almesse. Furthermore, the for-said dame Elene grauntith, for her and for her heires and her assignes, to the forsaid Abbesse, her covent, and to her successours, pasture to her owne viij. plough oxen and to her ij. maris in her demayn pasture in Halso, into eschaunge of a pasture that the said abbesse and Covent had in the thorne-holte of halso, that the said viij. oxen and ij. maris of the abbesse and Covent begynne frely to entre with the ladies oxen into the forsaide pasture, and fede theire oxen, where-so-ever the oxen of the maner of halso feden, pesibly and holy thurgh one monthe and no more every yere for ever, al so sone as the oxen and the maris of the forsaid dame Elene and her heires or her assignes commonely entir the said pasture, and specialy ben I-fed yerely in the same aftir Estir, to be hold and to be had (the said pasture) into pure and perpetuel almesse, in the forsaid fourme: and the forsaide dame Elene, hir heires, or hir assignes, shold warantie acquyte and defende the forsaid lond, with the pasture aforeseid, in the fourme afore I-write, to the [folio XLIXb(59b)] forsaid Abbesse and Covent and to her successours, ayenst all men: and for this gifte, graunt, and confirmacion, the forsaid abbesse and Covent yaf, graunted, and quyteclaymed, for her self and her successours, to the forsaid dame Elene, and to her heires or her assignes, into eschaunge the forsaid iiij. acres and half acre and half a rode of lond, liyng in the thorneholte in the feldes of halso, the which the same dame Elene made newly to be closed in, of the which lond one butte lieth with-out the diche of the said close toward the thorneholt of gritworth, to-gedir with the commune of a pasture the whiche the forsaid abbesse and Covent had and claymed in the forsaid thorneholte of Halso, to be hold and to be had (the forsaid lond, with the forsaide commone of pasture), to the forsaid dame Elene and to her heires or her assignes for ever, Of the chief lordes of the fee, frely quyetly and pesibly for ever. And the forsaid Abbesse and Covent warantiȝed aquyted and defended for ever, vnto the forsaid dame Elene and to her heires or her assignes, all the forsaid lond, with the commone of pasture aforsaid. In-to witnesse of the which, they put to this present writyng theire seales, and sealed hit everich to other. Thise beryng witnesse, & cetera.