is to be know that I haue forgefe to þe same afore [Read 'to the same afore-named chanons the ferme': 'condonavi canonicis prenominatis firmam.'] many chanons of ferme of vj. d. if so moche be to be paid; And if oony thyng ouer þoo vj. d. to be paied, þey shall paye hit to my cheker at þe fest of Seynte Myȝghell. This wey, with þe Above-saide thynges, to þe forsaide chanons I graunte, to be holde of me and myne heyres, frely and quietly, well and pesible for Euer, with-oute vexyng. And [þat] this my ȝifte and graunte sure & vnbroke abide, hit with þe witnesses of this present writyng and puttyng to of my seele, [I] þowght worþy to strenghte: þese witnisses, et cetera
[XI. Of Medley (near Oxford)]
[68.]
Note that Oseney and the Wyke were held of Oxford town, at a quit-rent of 13s. 4d.
HIT is to be remembrid howe we haue Midleye and þe Wike and oþer pertinences of þe yifte of þe Burgesis of oxon|forde, paying to þe same for þe yifte and warantiȝyng j. marke of [folio 18a] siluer, þe which truly marke þe saide Burgesis asseyned to þe priory of ffrideswith [to [Added from the Latin.] be paid by our hands, for the penalty laid on them] for þe deth of clerkes sumtyme hangid of [i.e. by them: 'ab eisdem.'] þe same.
[[NOTE.—Two things, widely apart in time, are to be distinguished in this memorandum. First, is the conveyance (reason not stated) of Medley to Oseney by Oxford town in 1147, the quit-rent (no. 69) being 6s. 8d. Afterwards, this quit-rent was doubled (no. 70), on fresh warranty being given. A sufficient reason for this warranty is found in the claim made for possession of Medley by St. Frideswyde's priory (Wigram's Cart. S. Frid., i. 36-8), which the town staved off (1191) by agreeing to pay 8s. yearly to the priory. In 1209 happened the 'sus|pensio clericorum,' for which the town was laid under interdict. In 1214, the town submitted and agreed to pay a sum yearly to the University through St. Frides|wyde's and Oseney; changed in 1219, to through Einsham. The assignment of the 13s. 4d. quit-rent to St. Frideswyde's by the town is no doubt part of the 1214 arrangements. Wood's City of Oxford, i. 330, wrongly dates the affray in 1144, to make it coincident with the original conveyance of the island.]][69.] Mydley: of the gyfte of the Citiȝens of Oxford.
1147. Grant to Oseney, by Oxford town, of Medley island, quit-rent 6s. 8d.
BE hit i-knowe to all true men of holy church both present and to be that we, Citesyns of oxonforde, of þe commune of þe Cite and þe yelde of marchauntes, for þe stabulnese of all þe
