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

and Paule j. obolus to the light of our lady of karsynton, for all seculer, seruice, exaccion, and demaunde; and the forsaid Amye and her heires or her assignes warantiȝed and defended for ever the forsaid Rode of lond, with all his pertynentis, to the forsaid Iordan and to his heires or his assignes, as hit is I-said before, ayenst al men and women. And for this yifte & cetera, the forsaid Iordan yaf to her iiij. shillings into warison. And that his yifte, graunte, & cetera.

A Charter of Iordan the said myller of karsyn|ton of iij. half acres and a rode of arable lond in the feldes of karsynton I-graunted and confermed to the mynchons of Godestowe.

About 1280. Grant to Godstow, by Jordan miller, of no. 393 and no. 394 subject to ½d. quit|rent, and scu|tage.

THE sentence of this Charter is that Iordan, the said myller of karsynton, [folio 69b] yaf, graunted, & cetera, to the mynchons of Godestowe there seruyng god and to serue for ever, iij. half acres and a rode of arable lond in the feldes of karsynton: of the which, j. half acre lieth in polforlonge, bitwene the londis of william Bampton and the lond of the said mynchons of Godestowe; and j. other half acre lieth vppon mochelforlonge, bitwene the lond of Iohn Braȝ and Symond Boneton; and the thirde half acre lieth vpon rede hegge, bitwene the londes of Roger Bunche and Symond Boneton; and j. rode lieth in the felde that is I-called litell lynton vndir the towne of karsynton, bitwene the lond of the said mynchons of the Est parte and the lond of Nicholas Richon, and strecchith hit-self vnto the gardyn of the forsaid mynchons; to be had and to be hold, to the seid mynchons and to ther successours, of the said Iordan the said myller and his heires, frely quyetly wele and in pease for ever, yeldyng therof yerely to the said Iordan and to his heires j. obolus at Mighelmasse for all seculer seruice and demaund and sutis of Courtis, savyng the kyngis seruyce longyng to so moche lond of the same fee in the same towne. And the forsaid Iordan and his heires waran|tiȝed acquyted and defended for euer the forsaid iii. half acres of lond also with the rode afore-named, with all ther pertynentis, to the forsaid mynchons and to ther successours ayenst all men and women, by the forsaid service. And that this his yifte & cetera, he put to this writyng his seale, & cetera.

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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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London :: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,
1911 [i.e.1905-11.]

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