About 1325. Lease for 60 years by Godstow, to Walter Weston, of 'Mar|garet hall' in S. Giles' Street. Quit-rent to Godstow, 4s., and to St. John Baptist Hospital, 1s. Right of re-entry, if rent is in arrears.
THE sentence of this covenaunte is, that there was a cove|naunte I-made bitwene dame Margarete Dyne, by the grace of god abbesse of Godestowe, and the Couent of the same place, of the one parte, and Walter Weston of the other, that is to sey, that the forsaid abbesse and Covent graunted and toke, for them and ther successours, to the forsaid Walter, his heires, and his assignes, a tenement in the subarbis of Oxenford in seynt Gylis strete, that somtyme was I-called margarete halle, the which tenement stode bitwene the tenement that was of Nicholas Rudeplonte of the south parte and the tenement that was of Richard Osen of the northe parte: To be had and to be hold, with all his pertynentis and eysementis, of the forsaid abbesse and couent and of ther successours, to the forsaid Walter, to his heires, and to his assignes, frely quyetly wele and in pease, to the terme of Lx. yere, the terme begynnyng in the morow of the Annunciacion of oure lady in marche, the xix. yere of the reigne of kyng Edward the sone of kyng Edward, yeldyng þerof yerely to the abbesse of Godestowe aforsaid and to ther succes|sours iiij. shillings of siluer at ij. termes of the yere, that is to sey, at Mighelmas ij. shillings and at our lady day in marche ij. shillings; and to the house of the hospitall of seynt Iohn of Oxenford euery yere xij. d., for all seruyce [folio 106] exaccion and demaunde. And yf hit happe (that god for-bede) that the said rent be not fully I-paid, in the termes I-ordeyned, to the forsaid abbesse and couent and also to the house of seynt Iohn of Oxen|ford and to the[r] successours, but ben behynde by an hole yere and iiij. dayes, fro that tyme hit shold be lefull to the said abbesse and covent to entre the said tenement in the ende of the yere and to resceive and occupie into theire owne vsis, with|out agayn-saiyng of any man or of ony men. Also the forseid abbesse and covent graunted, for them and ther successours, to the seid Walter [to his] heires and to his assignes that [they] ben nerrer than other in biyng of the seid tenement to ['to,' i.e. at.] the ende of
