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

nathelesse that nother he, nother his heires, nother none for hym or by hym, shold not, nor wold not, afterward axe or clayme ony right or clayme in the forsaid tenement, with his pertynentis, as in howsys mesis shoppis rentis and other eisementis and rightis in ony maner wise longyng to the forsaid tenement, as hit is aforesaid. Into witnesse of the which, & cetera. The date at Godestowe, the x. day of Octobre, in the xxix. yere of kyng Edward the sone of kyng henry.

[folio 116b] A-nother covenaunte bitwene Alice Gorges, Abbesse of Godestowe, and Symond Bradeway and luce his wyf, for a place with the entryng, in seynt mary parissh of Oxenforde, & cetera.

1303/4, Febr. 24. Life-rent by Godstow, to Simon Bradeway, of premises as in no. 652, under covenant to erect a building of stone, and repair a well, new build|ing to be left at end of lease. Rent, 2s. 8d. Powers of distraint.

THE sentence of this covenaunt is, that Alice Gorges, by the grace of god abbesse of Godestowe, and the couent of the same place, graunted and toke to Symond [of [Added from the Latin.] ] Brade-way and to luce his wyf, j. place, with the entryng, [in [Added from the Latin.] Schidȝerde], the which is in seynt mary parissh of Oxenford, bitwene ther tenement of the one parte and the tenement of Iohn Weston of the oþer parte, in the hye strete beside shideyerd: To be had and to be hold, with all his pertynentis and eysementis, to the forsaid Symond and Margery his wyf, to the terme of ther lyf, or of the one of them the which ouer-liveth, frely quyetly wele and in pease: So nathelesse that the forsaid Symond and luce, or the one of them that ouerliveth, shold lifte vp and make a chamber of stonys in the same place, of the sowthe parte, with ther owne costis, with-in the yere of this present resceivyng, con|teynyng in length xiiij. fote and in brede x. fote withyn the walles, other lenger or broder as hit semyth to hym best; also with the reparacion of a stony welle [Latin: 'fontis lapidei.'] and the clensyng, in the same place, without destroiyng of the same chambre or movynge away to be do in ony wise. And yf hit happened that the forsaid Symond and luce did not leuy or aroise and made the forsaid chambre nor clense the welle, with-in the yere, as hit is I-said before, hit shold be lawfull to them to entre agayn the forsaid place with the entryng, by ther baillifis, and to holde hit agayn as ther owne fre tenement, without lettyng or agayn|saiyng

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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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1911 [i.e.1905-11.]

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