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

chief lord of the fee yerely xviij. d. at Mighelmasse, for all seruyce and demaund. And he and his heires warantiȝed to the said William and to his heires and to his assignes, yf hit happe, all the lond, with the pertynentis, ayenst al men; but, and happe that he satisfye and paye the same xx. shillings in the afore-named terme of Alhalewyn, this present writyng shold be yelded to hym with-out agayn-saiyng; and the forsaid lond also shold be in the hande of the same William vnto the ende of x. yere, the which is I-conteyned in the charter that was I-made bitwene them, as the charters witnessen. And for by-cause hit shold not [be] out of mynde or be forgete, he put to his seale, & cetera [Witnesses include Peter son of Torald, maior, Pentecost and Henry, prepositi, of Oxford.] .

[folio 133] A charter of Moolde that was the doughtir of William Perle of Oxenford I-made to the mynchons of Godestowe for all thise londes vndir writen.

About 1240. Grant to Godstow, by Maud Perle, of land as in no. 697, and of land in St. Frides|wyde's parish, subject to 2d. yearly to St. Mildred's Church; to provide a yearly pittance of 20s. on her own anni|versary, the residue to go to the infirmary of Godstow, after pay|ing for quit-rents and repairs of the property.

THE sentence of this charter is, that Moolde, that was the doughter of William Perle of Oxenford, in her lawfull wedow|hode, yaf, & cetera, for her and her heires, to god & cetera and to the mynchons of Godestowe ther seruyng god and to serue for euer, for the helthe of her sowle and of her other aunceturs, thise londes vndir-writte, the which she had, and was possessed by right heritage, in the towne of Oxenford, with all ther per|tynentis, that is to sey, all that lond that William her fadir bought of Walter fitȝ William Coillum, the which lieth bitwene the lond that was of Iohn Borewald and the londe that was of Alice that was the wyf of hugh Eton in seynt Mildredis parissh of Oxenford: Also all that lond that the forsaid William her fadir bought of Science that was the wyf of Thomas Machon in seynt Frideswythe parissh of Oxenford: To be hold and to be had for euer, to the said mynchons seruyng and to serue in the said monastery, with all ther pertynentis, into fre pure and perpetuell almesse; doyng natheles therof yerely to the chief lordes of the fees seruyce dew and I-wonyd therof, after the tenour of the charters the which her fadir had therof; And also yeldyng vnto the chirche of seynt Mildreth [Wood's City of Oxford, ii. 94.] virgyn of Oxenford

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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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