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

exaccion and demaunde. And the forsaid Symond and his heires or his assignes warantiȝed and defended for euer the forsaid iiij. rodes, with all theire pertynentis, to the forsaid holy mynchons and to there successours ayenst all men and women cristen and Iewes. And for this yifte, & cetera, the forsaid holy mynchons yaf to hym before handes j. mark of siluer. And that this his yifte, & cetera, he put to this writyng his seale, & cetera.

[Exchanges with Sir William Montacute [His widow, Elizabeth Montacute, died about 1349, after founding (Wood's City of Oxford, ii. 170) chantries in St. Frides|wyde's Priory, where her tomb is extant (ibid. ii. 173).] .]
[folio 86] A Charter of kyng Edward, I-made to sire william mount-acu for the same ij. acris of lond.

1313/4. Febr. 2. Licence in mort|main, by Edward II, empower|ing Sir William Montacute, to exchange 2 acres with God|stow (as in no. 426 and no. 427) and God|stow to accept the exchange.

THE sentence of this charter is, that kyng Edward, by the grace of god kyng of Inglond lord of Irlond and duke of Guyen, of his special grace graunted and yaf licence, for hym and his heires al so moche as was in hym, to his welle be-loued and trew man William Mounte-Acu, that he myght yeve and assygne the ij. acris of lond with the pertynentis in karsynton, the which were hold of [Read 'of,' for 'to.'] hym in chief, to his welbeloved in crist Abbesse of Godestowe and to the mynchons there: To be had and to be hold, to them and to ther successours, of hym and his heires, into fre pure and perpetuel almesse, into an eschaunge for ij. acris of lond with the pertynentis in the same towne, the whiche the same abbesse and Couent of mynchons holden of hym into fre pure and perpetuel almesse, by them to be yeve and graunted to the same william, to be hold of hym and to [Read 'of,' for 'to.'] his heires, by the same seruycis by the which the oþer ij. acris aforsaid were hold of hym, for euer. And to the same abbesse and mynchons, that they myght reteyne and hold the forsaid ij. acris of lond, with the pertynentis, of the forsaide william, to them and to ther successours, of hym and of his heires, into fre pure and perpetuel almesse, into an eschaunge of other ij. acres of lond, with the pertynentis, the which the forsaid abbesse and mynchons held of hym into fre pure and perpetuel almesse, by them to be yeve and graunted to the same

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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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