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

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[folio VIb(18b)] A charter of huge Abbot of Abendon for iiij. burthyns of thornys.

About 1190. Confirma|tion to God|stow, by Abingdon abbey, of an old grant of faggots every day.

THE sentence of thys charter is, that Huge, Abbot of Abendon, & all the Couent of the same place, with oone assent, yaf & grauntyd to the Mynchons of Godstow, for the loue of god, in-to pur & perpetual almys, fowre burdyns of thornys of her wood of Cumnore, to be hadde euyry day thorow the yere by the syht of her forester, as they haue be wonyd to haue in tyme here a-fore: & that they be not greuid, ne let by the gryef of any man, in any tyme, of these burduns of thornys to be hadde. The forseyde Abbot & his couent confermyd the same graunt with her wrytynge, & settynge to of her seeles: these beynge wytnes: & is with-out date.

DUXFORD, on the Thames, in Longworth parish. [[NOTE.—The probability is that the abbess and convent of Bertincourt in Normandy held the feudal superiority of this property, and that therefore the tenant, Henry of St. Valerie, could not impose a rent-charge on it without their permission. For this leave they imposed the problematical rent, that Godstow should acknowledge the overlordship of Bertincourt by payment of 12d. when the abbess of Godstow visited Bertincourt. Godstow seems afterwards to have accepted a smaller rent|charge in consideration of obtaining powers of distraint for arrears. The rent-charge does not occur either in Pope Nicholas IV's Taxatio Ecclesiastica, 1291, or at the dissolution in 1540.]]
[folio 150] A Charter of henry of seynt walerye, for the mylle of dudekesforde to the holy mynchons of Godestowe.

About 1235. Grant to Godstow, by Henry of St. Valerie, of 12s. rent|charge on the mill, subject to a casualty to Bertin|court abbey, Nor|mandy.

THE sentence of this charter is, that henry of seynt walerye yaf, & cetera, to god & cetera and to the holy mynchons of Godestowe ther seruyng god, for the helth of his soule and of his auncetours and of his heires, xij. shillings of yerely rent of the mylle of dudekesford, with all encrese that myght come of the mylle, as hit is conteyned in the charter that he made of the abbesse and covente of Bertancourte: To be had and to be hold, into fre and perpetuel almesse, by service that he ought to do to the said abbesse of Bertancourte, that is to sey, by xij.

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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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