schewe whye he schall not Doo hit; and haue þu þis brefe. [folio 21a] Myne owne selfe witnesse, et cetera.
that þe same Abbot, By þe charter of Adelide or Alis sum|tyme quene of Inglonde, and By þe charter of Moolde themperice, and By confirmacion of Kyng Henry, and by confirmacion of Kyng John, And By charter of Kyng Henry nowe reynyng (by the which þe same Kyng to þabbot and chanons of Oseney þe same londe with þe pertinences ȝeldyng [Read 'yelded': 'reddidit.'] as his ryȝght) full ryȝght hath in þe same, & hath and holdeth in-to ffree and perpetuell almes, after þe tenour of þe charters aforesaide, as ['sicut est in seisina.'] hit is in þe sesynyng; and that Adam Berners, chanon, attor|neye of þe same Abbot, yed with-owte daye. These þynges were i-doo of þassent of owr lorde Kyng selfe, of þe counsell of his counsellers þen beyng present with owr lorde Kynge, that is to say, John Maunsell; Robert passell; Raph ffiȝt Nicholl; Bertram of Orrell; Peter chaceporter, Kynges tresorer; Edwarde of Westmynyster, chaunceler of þe Checurr; And hit is to be i-Mynded that owr lorde Kyng apered by his attorneye, laurence of Beoc ['Broc.'] , to here þe Juggement, þe which also abode In þe mercy of Kyng.
[87.] A charter agaynste John of Hanborowgh and William of Seynte Eweyne of þe Shepehowse.
About 1240. Contro|versy be|tween Oseney, and two inhabitants of Hand|borough, about a sheep|house, and pasture|rights, ended by Oseney giving half|an-acre in exchange for land beside the sheep|house; undertak|ing not to send an excessive number of beasts to common pasture; and paying 13s. 4d., and 6s. 8d.
BE hit i-knowe to all men that whenne, bytwene John of Hanborowgh and William of Seynte Eweyne of þe oon partie, and John [Probably John Leche, abbot 1235-49.] Abbot and Couent of Oseney of þe oþer partie, was i-meved a controuersye vppon a Shepehowse of þe same chanons at Hanborowgh (þe which ['quam dicebat idem Iohannes levatam [esse] ad nocumentum liberi tenementi sui.'] þe same [John] saide hit leuyed to nothyng of his ffree tenement), and vppon ouerchargyng of pasture in þe same towne: at þe laste, by counsell of worthy men, all þe strifes i-meved restid in-to this maner,
that is to say, þat þe forsaide John all his quarell, that he had, or myȝght haue, by þe occasion of þe saide shepehowse, to þe saide chanons, for hym and his heyres for Euer, remittyng [Read 'remitted,' 'remisit': 'or re|leased' is the translator's usual alternative addition.]
