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

WARWICKSHIRE
BARTON-IN-THE-HEATH.
[Exchequer-MS.] Final concord between Royseia, abbess of Godstow, and John of Cumpton.

1279, April. Claim by Godstow, for £1 rent|charge.

THERE was a suit decided at Westminster, in Easter term, 7 Edward I, before Roger of Lye and other justices, between Godstow and John of [Long-]Compton, about payment in quarterly instalments of 20s. rent-charge in Barton in hen|marshe, due by lands of Roger of Barton which said John held.

Fragment.

1306, May 4. Obligation to Godstow, by Thomas in £10.

[Rawl.-MS. folio 214] paid [The English Register resumes after a lost leaf. I have not found the deed in the Latin Register. The fragment refers to the same transaction as is noticed in no. 801.] after the forme of theire feffement and obligacion as more playnly hit apperith. Elles the said obligacion of x. li. stonde at no strengthe ne vertu. In witnesse wherof, to this present writyng endented, with [Omit 'with.'] the seale of the same Abbesse and the seale of the same Thomas enterchaungeably ben sette to. The date is at warwyk the wedensday, in the morow after the Inuencion of the holy crosse, in the yere of the reigne of kyng Edward, the xxxiiijti.

An obligacion of the forsaid Thomas Le Here I-made to the Abbesse and Couent of Godestowe, & cetera.

1306, May 4. Acknow|ledgement to Godstow, by Thomas le here, of a loan of £10, to be paid by June 24th under penalty of £5 forfeit to 'the sub|sidy of the Holy Land'; also grant of power of distraint over Barton manor for a rent-charge of £1.

THE sentence of this obligacion [See in the Exchequer MS., leaf i, back.] is, that Thomas Le here, the sone of Roger Le here of Barton in henmerssh, knowleched hym-self to be bounden to Moolde, by the grace of god abbesse of Godestowe, and to her successours, and to the Couent of the same place, in ten pounde sterlyngis, of them I-borowed and

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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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