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

heires or to his assignes all, to make more surete of the forsaid xx. shillings of yerely [rent] comyng forth of the forsaid tene|ment, bonde all ther tenementis in the parissh of the holy crosse in the subarbis of Oxenford, to the same Odo and to his heires or to his assignes all, to the warantiȝyng of the said xx. shillings of yerely rent, the which tenement he had of the yifte of Emme that was the wyf of henry myller; Also with all ther tenement in the parissh of seynt myghell the sowth, vpon graunte pownte [Grandpont in ancient times meant the whole causeway from the old South Gate of Oxford to South Hincksey hill. The part of it on which houses then stood is now that part of St. Aldate's Street which ex|tends from the south-west corner of Christ Church to Folly Bridge.] , the which tenement they had of the yifte of Alice the which was the wyf of Roger Webbe, tille that a fynall concorde were fully levyed bitwene them and the said Odo and his heires or his assignes all, in the kyngis [folio 113] Courte, of the forsaid xx. shillings of yerely rent, of the forsaid tenement comyng forthe, in the parissh of oure lady seynt mary in Oxenford, and delyuered to the said Odo and his heires or his assignes alle, to the which fyne trewly to be levied they were I-constreyned by the trouthe. And whan the fynall concorde was I-levied fully or plenarly, in the kyngis courte, bitwene them and the said Odo and his heires or his assignes all, this present obligacion shold be had for naught. Into witnesse, & cetera. The date at Oxenford, the Friday next afore the Annunciacioun of our lady, the xix. yere of the reigne of kyng Edward the sone of kyng Edward [The Latin copy has 'the son of kyng Henry,' which is correct.] .

1294, Nov. 11. Sale by Godstow, to Mabel Wafre, abbess, of the rent|charge in no. 657, purchase|money, £13 16s. 8d., to endow a pittance on her anniver|sary.

THE sentence of this charter is, that lore hakynton, prioresse of the Chirche of godestowe, and the Couent of the same place, graunted, by the assent of all the chapiter, and with this present writyng confermed, to dame Mabyle Wafre, by the grace of god abbesse of Godestowe aforesaid, xx. shillings of siluer of yerely rent comyng forth in Oxenford of a tenement somtyme I-called