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

[6. Rent-charge over the house of the Southams.]
[folio 112] A Charter of Iohn Weston and Isowde his wyf of xx. shillings of yerely rent to sir Odo, Chapelayn of Godestowe.

About 1290/1. Sale to Odo, chaplain, by John Weston, of the rent|charge as in no. 649 and no. 651, with the contingent rights car|ried by it. Purchase|money, £13 6s. 8d.

THE sentence of this charter is, that Iohn Weston and Isowde his wyf yaf, & cetera, to sir Odo, I-called Chapeleyn of Gode|stowe, xx. shillings of yerely rent of all that tenement that is I-sette bitwene ther houses of the west parte and the strete that is I-called Shideward of the Est parte, in the parissh of the chirche of seynt mary of Oxenford, Also with all the right and clayme that myght happe to them or to ther heiris of all the forsaid tenement: To be had and to be hold, with all other pertynentis, of them and ther heires or ther assignes, to the said Odo and his heires or his assignes, bothe religious and other, frely, quyetly, pesibly, and holy, for ever. And the said Iohn Weston and Isowde his wyf, and his heires or assignes, warantiȝed ayenst all [folio 112b] men and women, and aquyted, and defended for euer, the forsaid xx. shillings of yerely rent, with all other pertynentis, as hit is aforsaid, to the forsaid Odo, his heires, or his assignes, Religious and other. And for this yifte, & cetera, the said Odo yaf to them xx. mark of sterlyngis afore|handis. And that this his yifte, & cetera [Witnesses as in no. 652.] .

A charter obligatory bitwene Iohn Weston and Isowde his wyf and Odo, Chapeleyn of Godestowe, for xx. shillings of yerely rent of the house that was somtyme of Thomas Sowtham in seynt Mary parisshe of Oxenford.

1290/1, March 21. Grant to Odo, chap|lain, by John Weston, of security for giving him possession of the rent|charge as in no. 657.

THE sentence of this Charter is, that Iohn Weston and Isowde his wyf yaf & cetera to Odo, Chapeleyn of Godestowe, and to his heires or his assignes all, xx. shillings of yerely rent, of a tene|ment in the parissh of seynt Mary of Oxenford comyng, the which tenement Thomas Sowtham held somtyme in the same parissh, as the charter of the said Odo the which he had of them therof fully conteyneth; willyng, to the same Odo and to his

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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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