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

Couente of the same place, yaf & cetera, to the keper and scolers of Caunterbury halle [Canterbury College: Wood's City of Oxford, ii. 275-89.] , in the towne of Oxenford, all ther owne halle I-called Shiphalle, with his pertynentis, I-sette in seynt Edward-is strete of Oxenford, bitwene Vynhalle of the north parte and the forsaid halle of the forsaid keper and scolers of Caunterbury of the southe parte. They yaf also and graunted to the same keper and scolers one voide place of ther owne lond there, conteynyng in length foure-score foote, and in brede iiij. foote [The Latin says: '12 feet wide.'] , liyng bitwene Vynhalle of the one parte and the said Caunterbury halle of that other parte, wherof one hede of the forsaid voide place of lond buttith vnto the walle of the forsaid abbesse and Couente the which is I-called Spaldyng entre: To [folio 130b] be holde and to be had, with all his pertynentis ouer all and his commoditees also, with the forsaid vacant place of lond, to the forsaid keper and scolers and to ther successours the whiche shold be keper and scolers, of the forsaid Caunterbury halle, frely quyetly holy wele and in pease for euer, of the chief lordes of that fee by seruyce dew therof and I-wonyd, yeldyng therof yerely to them, and to ther successours, or to ther assignes all, xx. shillings of lawfull money at ij. termes of the yere, that is to sey, begynnyng at the fest of seynt Mighell, that shold be next at the yere after the said terme after the date of this present writyng, x. shillings, and at the fest of our lady in marche x. shillings, for all seruyces customes exaccions and seculer demaundes longyng to them and to ther successours. And yf hit happed the forsaid rente of the forsaid xx. shillings to be behynde by xv. daies after ony terme of the forsaid termes, in parte or in all, the keper and the scolers willed and graunted, for them and ther successours that were for the tyme, that fro that tyme hit shold be lawfull to the forsaid abbesse and Couente, and to ther successours, to entre in the forsaid ship|halle and in the forsaid Caunterbury hall, and in euerych parte, with the said parcell of lond and the parcell of the same halle and lond, for distreynyngis to be take, and to take all distreyn|yngis I-founde in them, to bere, to lede away, and to hold to them-self, without agayn-saiynge of the forsaid keper and scolers or of ony other, tille that hit be fully I-satisfyed of the
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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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Godstow nunnery.
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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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