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

forsaid ij. yerdes of lond, with ther pertynentis, and þe forsaid place of a curtilage, and the forsaid pasture to an hundred Shepe at the lest, to the said Iames and to all his assignes, after the fourme of the said charter, by the space of xvj. yere content in the same charter, after that that hit [MS. has 'his.'] was afore diuided, fro all customes sutis and demaundis and all other vexacions in the same charter, so that the said Iames or his assignes for defaute of warantiȝyng shold not take none harme, what-so-ever happen of the forsaid Moolde his modir. And for this graunte, lettyng, and confermyng, the forsaid Iames yaf to his moder and to hym to there grete nede iij. mark of siluere and j. half, to mary his sustirs. Wherfor he willed and suerly graunted that all the articles I-content in the same charter shold be kept feithfully and without deceyte of hym and his heires. And he bound hym-self by his trouthe, for hym and his heires, to the kepyng of the same couenaunt. And for more suerte of the same thyng, he put to his seale, & cetera.

[folio 89b] A Charter of Thomas Race, sone and Heire of Iordan Race of Mildecumbe, relesyng all his right in xxix. acris with alle there pertynentis in alle placis.

1311/2, Jan. 21. Quit-claim to Godstow, by Thomas Race, of all title in 29 acres, dispersed in the fields of Milcomb, and in God|stow pro|perty in Milcomb and Blox|ham.

THE sentence of this relese is, that Thomas Race, the son and heire of Iordan Race of myldecumbe, remytted, relesed, and vttirly quyteclaymed, for hym and his heires for ever, with-out ony withholdyng, to Moolde Vpton, by the suffraunce of god abbesse of Godestowe, and to the Couent of the same place, all his right and clayme that he had, or myght haue, or shold mowe to haue in ony wise in tyme to come, in xxix. acris of lond with all ther pertynentis in all placis, liyng in dyuerse placis of the feldis of Mildecumbe, of the which xxix. acris he toke a bref, that is to sey, a writte, of the kyng vpon the forsaid abbesse; and also remytted and quyte-claymed vttirly for ever to the forsaid abbesse and Couent all his right and clayme that he had, or in ony wyse myght haue, in all londis tenementis and rentis the which the said abbesse and Couent held in the townys of Milde|combe and Bloxham: to be had and to be hold, frely quyetly wele and in pease for ever, without ony clayme or agayn-holdyng

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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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