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

YORKSHIRE
YORK.
[folio 151b] A Charter of Helye fitȝ Robert for all his right that he had in all his londes in yorke, & cetera.

Confirma|tion to Godstow, by Elias, son of Robert, of lands in Littlegate, given by his brother Thomas.

THE sentence of this charter is, that Helie fitȝ Robert graunted, & cetera, to god & cetera and to the mynchons of Godestowe ther seruyng god, into pure and perpetuel almesse, for the helth of his soule and of his auncetours, all the right that they had at york in all the londes in litelgate, the which lieth bitwene thirosegail and the lond of henry Bustard, the which they had of the yifte of theire bretherne Roger and Thomas, frely and quyetly fro all seculer seruyce and exaccion except the seruyce of the chief lord, that is to sey, ij. shillings by the yere for all seruyce, and except j. lj. of comyn the which were I-woned to pay the mynchons afore-named to hym and to his heires for all seruyce at Cristmasse, after the tenour of the charter that they had of Thomas his brother. And his brother warantiȝed þise aforsaid londes to the forsaid mynchons, after the charter of Thomas his brother afore-named. These beyng witnesse, & cetera [No other trace of this property has been found.] .

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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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