were i-woned of olde tyme, with ffre Entre & goyng-owte to Carye and to bere, as to þem beste semeth to doo. And if it happen that þe saide chanons wille that þere corne þere Be thresshe In the forsaide howse, þen I and myne heyres schall make it to Be thresshe, and þe· chaffe schall Abide to|gedur with þe strow to me and to my heyres. And if they will not þat hit Be þere i-thresshe, then it schall Be ffre to theme, whenne þay [will], to Bere awey all þere corne in scheves hoole, ande when it is i-Bore awey, that howse schall turne In-to myne vses, till eftesoones ['iterum.'] , her [Probably 'her[st]' = harvest. Latin is: 'redeunte tempore autumpnali.'] come agayne, ther corne In-to þe same will put in; And I and myne heyres that howse schall kepe vn-hurt, that hit Be not i-hyndred or apeyred [Both words form a duplicate rendering of 'deterioretur.'] By owr vse; and this almes to þe saide chanons we schall warantiȝe for euer agaynste all pepull & schall Defende. And that all þese thynges Be fferme, et cetera.
[179.] Writyng of Symon, person of Heyforde Waryn, for hym and his successours al so muche as is in hym neuer to trouble thabbot and Couent of Oseneye for here tithis of Heyforde.
1293. Promise made to Oseney, by the rector of Heyford|Warren, to allow Oseney quiet pos|session of two-thirds of the tithes (great and small) of the de|mesne-land (as in no. 21).
TO all cristen men to þe which þese present letters schall come, Symon, þe person of [folio 39a] the church of Heyforde Waryn, helth in owre lorde. Knowe me to haue Be-holde þe Instru|mentes of Religiouse men Abbot and Couent of Oseneye, þat is to say, of þe patronys Bisschopis and Chapiter of lincoln and confirmacion of þe pope, [in] þe which Euidently and sufficiently Is conteyned that ij. partis of the tithis (Bothe of grete and smale) of the Demayne In the saide towne comyng forthe, By þe cawse of þe church of Seynte George In the castell of oxonforde, þe which to þem þe haue i-approprid, and chefely of telthis within i-write, þat is to say, Croftfurlonge, And Inlonde, Ruelle|ffurlong [Ruelles-, Nambres-, Meres-.] , Nambreffurlonge, Moreffurlong, to þe same longen. I, the saide Symon, for me and (al so muche as in me is) for my successours, say and knowlege, By the tenour of this present writyng, to þem of speciall ryȝght to longe, and ['et de eorum tranquilla et non inter|rupta possessione promittens.'] of þere stille
