and Couente and ther successours, frely quyetly wele and in pease, yeldyng therof yerely to the said abbesse and Couente and to ther successours, duryng the x. first yeres, euery yere at the fest of seynt Frideswyth virgyne, x. shillings, and all the other yeres folowyng, duryng the lyf of the said William and Isabell his wyf, the same William or the one of them shold yelde to the said abbesse and Couente, and to ther successours, euery yere xiij. shillings at that same fest of seynt Frideswith aboue|said. And the forsaid abbesse and Couente and ther successours warantiȝed and defended the said selde, with all the solar above|said, with all ther pertynentis, to the said William More and to Isabell his wyf (to all the lyf of them) and to ther assignes, bothe ayenst the chief lordes and also ayenst all other peple mortall. And the forsaid William and Isabell and ther assignes shold susteyne and holde vp the said selde and solar, with ther owne costis, [and] make agayn and repaire hit in all thyngis, honestly and competently, after that hit semeth to them to be nedefull and hovable. Also the said William & Isabell grauntith, that, yf the said William dyed (the said Isabelle lyvyng), and the same [Isabell] (after the decesse of the seid William) cese by one yere, and be behynde, in the paiyng of the yerly rente aforsaid (that god forbede), than hit shold be lawfull to the said abbesse and Couente, and to ther successours, to take the said selde, with the solar, and with the pertynentis, with all the beteryngis and amendyngis that they put to them, into ther hondes, and to dis|pose therof at ther wille, and to cast out, [or] put out, the said Isabell, and her assignes, and all maner dwellers in them, with|out ony hope of recoueryng, and [with-out] ayenst-saiyng of ony man. Into witnesse of whiche, & cetera.
1329, Sept. 29. Lease for 40 years by Godstow, to Thomas and Cicely Marchall, of a seld in the Cord|wainry, subject to quit-rents, to Godstow, 12s. 3d.; to St. Frides|wyde's Priory, 1s. 9d.; and to Oxford City, 4s. Power to distrain for rent over six selds. Obligation to keep in repair. Lease to be broken by death of lessees.
THE sentence of this couenaunte is, that there was a cove|naunte I-made bitwene margerye dyne, abbesse of godestowe, and the couente of the same place, of the one parte, and Thomas
