apostels writyng, we commaunde (þat þe partes i-callid) ye hire þe cause, and þat that is ryȝght (appelle i-put a-backe) ye ordeyne, makyng þat þat ye ordeyne by þe censure of þe church surely to be kepid, and þe witnysses that ben i-named (if þey, for grace, hatrede, or drede, with-drawe þem) by þe same censure (appelle cesyng) constreyne to bere witnesse to þe trowthe; and if ye all to þese þynges to be executid may not be ['non . . . potueritis interesse.'] atte hit, ȝit at þe leste tweyne doo execucion. Date at Viterbe, þe iiij. kk. of may, of our Bisshophode þe iiij. ȝere.
Þen for [Read 'þerefore': 'igitur.'] , by þe auctorite of this maundement, abbot of Redyng, our ffelawe Jugge, hym-selfe at ['ad totam causam.'] all þe cause excusyng, þe which was i-meved betwene Richard Abbot and Couent of Oseneye, of þe oon party, and Henry ffiȝt Symon, Philippe Miller, Symon Balehorn, Rordan rede ['rufum.' Read 'Iordan.'] , William Were ['Bere.'] , Oriot wydwe of Oeyen, Anneys wydwe of John Burewalde, John Pady, Richard Stocwell, Alurey Elmel, Robert oerre, Andrewe Halegoode, Milon Baker ['pistorem.'] , of the oþer party; Abbot and Couent of Osneye by a procutor ['per procuratores': 'procutor' seems to be a shortening, in the direction of 'proctor.'] , Philip Miller, S. Balehorne, and John Rede ['Iordano ruffo.'] , in here owne persones, and oþer afore-named by procutours ['per procuratores': 'procutor' seems to be a shortening, in the direction of 'proctor.'] in our presence i-sette, þe striffe vppon tithis of heye of þe forsaide men, that is to saye, of þe medes þe which lye withoute the courte of Oseneye towarde þe west i-witnessed, and witnesses to ['ad probandam intentionem.'] þentente of þabbot and Couent of Osneye to be proued afore vs i-browght forth and examined, by [Omit 'by.' 'iuris ordine, circa publica|cionem attestacionum dictorum testium productorum et partium disputacionem, per omnia observato.'] ordre of lawe abowthe þe pubblisshyng of [the attestations] þe saide witnisses i-browthȝ forth and þe disputyng of parties thoroght all thynges i-kepid: When ['Cum nobis de causa liqueret, renuncia|tionibus productionum testium et allega|cionum hinc inde factis': i.e. both parties declared they had no more oral testimony (testes) or written statements (allegaciones) to produce.] it was opyn of plee, renuncyng of þe bryngyng forth of witnesses and the allegacions hidis [Read 'hidir' (hither and thither).] and þere i-doo, whenne fully it was i-preued by feythfull men þat þe saide medis [Marginal note: 'vppon the tythes of certeyn Mede lying without the Courte of Osney towardes the west.'] of þe forsaide places of oxonforde was of þe parish
