and to ther baillifis, full power to neme and to distreyne the forsaid tenement thurgh all goodes and catals for the forsaid rent and of other seruycis aboueseid [till it] were to them fully satisfied and also [In the Latin: 'ac etiam per lapsum temporis vendendi si necesse fuerit juxta consuetudinem ville Oxonie ad quattuor anni terminos principales et usuales.' This seems to mean that, if Godstow had to resume possession, the lessees would still be liable for the rent till the next usual time of letting, i.e. next quarter-day.] for the failyng of the tyme (yf hit were nede) after the custome of Oxenford. And the forsaid Alice Georges and the Covent of the same place and ther successoures warantiȝed aquyted and by the forsaid service defended all the forsaid place, with all the walles and all maner pertynentis afore-named, to the forsaid philippe, Alice, and to Iohane the doughtir of them, al so longe as they lived or to one of them lengest livyng, ayenst all men and women. Into witnesse of the which, euerith of the parties put to ther seales to others writyng, & cetera [Witnesses: John of Beverley, Henry le peyntour, Robert of Milton, Henry of Weston, Nicholas Rodeplont.] .
1306, Dec. 25. Lease for three lives, by God|stow, to William of Boken|hulle, his wife, and son, of a tene|ment, quit-rent, 7s. 4d.; two suits of court; and 2 days' reaping.
THE sentence of this charter is, that moolde vpton, by the grace of god abbesse of Godestowe, and the couent of the same place, with one assent and consent of all ther chapiter, the cristmasse day, the yere of our lord a thousand thre C. and sixe, lete & cetera to William of Bokenhulle and to margery his wyf and to henry ther sone, one tenemente with the pertynentis I-sette in the parissh of seynt Gyle in the hundred with-out the north gate of Oxenford, bitwene the tenement of the forsaid William of the one parte and the tenement of Nicholas Rode|plonte of the other parte: To be had and to be hold, to the forsaid William and Margery and henry, to all the terme of theire lyf or to the other of them lengest livyng, frely quyetly wele and in pease, of them and of ther successours, yeldyng therof yerely to them and to ther successours vij. shillings iiij. d. at iiij. commune and vsuall termes of the yere; and ij. sutis of ther courte by yere; and also ij. dayes to repe in hervest, for all other [folio 102b] sutes and demaundes. And the forsaid Moolde and her successours warantiȝed acquyted and defended the forsaid tenement, with the pertynentis, to the for|said
