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

parte, in marie mawdeleyn parissh, withoute Smythgate, in Bew|mounte strete [Now Park Street, in front of Wadham College.] , that is to sey, at the fest of Alhalewyn half a marke, and at hokeday [Hockday is second Tuesday after Easter.] half a marke: To be had and to be hold, of hym and his heires for euer, frely quyetly holy wele and in pease, yeldyng therof yerely to hym and to his heires j. obolus at Ester for all seruyce, custome, and demaunde: he graunted also to the seid abbesse and mynchons fre power to distreyne hym and his heires by the same tenement and his other tene|mentis in the towne and subarbis of Oxenford to the paiyng of the said marke, yf hit were nede. And for this yifte, & cetera, the said abbesse yaf to hym viij. marke of siluer and an half in warison. And the forsaid henry and his heires warantiȝed the forsaid marke (and [Omit 'and j. half.' The Latin is: 'pre|dictam marcam redditus argenti.'] j. half) to the forsaid abbesse and Couent and to ther successours ayenst all men and women. And that this his yifte, & cetera.

A quyte-clayme of Roger Somere I-made to the holy mynchons of Godestowe for xviij. d. of yerely rente.

About 1280. Quit-claim to Godstow, by Roger Semer, of a rent|charge of 1s. 6d. apparently over same messuage as no. 664.

THE sentence of this quyte-clayme is, that Roger Somer ['Semer,' in the Latin copy.] relesed, and quyte-claymed, to god & cetera and to the holy mynchons of Godestowe ther seruyng god, for hym and his heires or his assignes, all the right and clayme that he had, or myght have, in xviij. d. of yerely rente, with the pertynentes, of j. house, the whiche is I-sette bitwene the lond that was of hugh meryton of the one parte and the lond that was of Roger Mylone of the other parte, in Magdaleyn parissh, without the Smythgate, in Bewmounte strete: To be had and to be holde, with his bildyngis and all his other pertynentis, to the forsaid mynchons and to ther successours, frely quyetly pesibly and holy for ever: So that nother he, nother his heires, or his assignes, never afterward shold have power to axe ony right or clayme in the forsaid xviij. d. of yerely rente, of the forsaid mese, with his pertynentis. And for-asmoche that he willed this his quyte|claymyng, & cetera [One witness is 'William, vicar of Duninton (i.e. Dinton), then custos of Godestowe.'] .

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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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