The English register of Oseney abbey / by Oxford, written about 1460. Ed., with an introduction and indexes, by Andrew Clark.

artikuls 56/21.

asforthe xxix, 133/17.

as muche þat 19/18.

assay 68/14 attempt.

assencion daye 58/7.

asseyned 5/15, 69/14; assined 80/9; assyned 6/23.

assise 203/12, assyse 159/2 trial by jury.

assise 203/13 jury.

assise of forest 37/31.

assoyled 150/14; assoylyng 202/5.

assyne 166/24, asyne 166/24, as|synes 120/4, assines 177/15.

ataste 19/6 attempt.

attached 86/23, attachid 44/7 taken in distraint.

attendyng 112/5 paying attention to.

attorned to 159/16, 160/5; atourn|ed 94/14 legally transferred to.

attorneye 81/11 legal representative.

auctorite 13/26, autorite 38/15.

Aue maria 1/12.

auereyne 10/13.

aunceturs 43/7.

auter 54/18, 72/20, 113/9; auters 119/22; high auter 137/3; altar.

auterage 113/3 gifts made to the altar.

availe 170/17 to be worth.

avise 46/19, substv. thinking over.

avise 14/4, 17/27, 68/1, verb.

avisement 49/9.

axar 104/6; axer 148/5, 165/32 plaintiff in a lawsuit.

axe 44/3, axid 53/8 to claim as legal right. Axe or chalenge 120/18.

axer 68/6, 111/18 petitioner; also (b) plaintiff: see axar.

axynges, axinges, (a) petitions 17/12, 33/2, 39/3, 111/21; (b) legal claims 23/18, 55/33, 59/13.

ayther 21/9, 22/10 other, i.e. both.

aȝene paye 157/6 to repay.

bache 107/28.

backster 28/13.

ballyfys 33/26: see bayleffes.

banke 169/16; banke or benche 203/21 Court of King's Bench.

baptyme 2/22.

bare 131/22 to bear.

barne 143/27, berne 140/35, 143/25.

barons of Oxfordshire 71/13.

barons 36/13, 79/26: in formula of royal charters

barton 110/24.

bayleffes 36/14, baylyffes 37/27, baylyfs 79/27: in the royal ser|vice.

baylyfe of the hundred 84/28.

baylifhoode 73/7, baylyschepe 88/7, baylyfwyke 109/5 aggregate of estates under management of the same land-steward.

be xxxiv verb.

be 39/23, 84/3, prepos. by.

be-cawse 49/21.

beeledame 16/28, 174/20; bele|dame 28/27; beelemoder 17/29 grandmother.

beelefader 27/28; beelesire 16/27, 27/31; beelsire 35/22 grandfather.

beest 89/20, beeste 89/29 animal: but usual spelling is best.

befalleth 13/18 it becomes.

befor 118/8: usual form is afore.

before handes 186/4

behestid 75/10 promised.

behoten 4/14 promised.

behynde 52/6: see byhynde.

beleve 3/15 belief, faith.

benefetes 129/20, benefettes 127/12, benefittis 206/6 merit gained by charitable works.

benefettes 113/24 benefactions.

benefeturs 128/18.

beniuolente 68/6.

benynge 39/1 benign.

benyson 61/30.

bequathed 121/6; bequethid 124/27.

bercar xxix, 189/10.

bere 144/2 to bear.

berewes lvii, 57/20.

berne see barne.

besaunt of silver 173/21, ofgold 119/9.

best 89/29 animal; bestes 24/3, 45/31; bestis 86/29, 90/3: see beest.

bestialles 82/13.

besy 38/19.

beyonde 52/14: see byyonde.

bisshiphode 42/30, 47/32; bis|shophode 62/9.

bisshoprich 40/8, 137/3.

bisshopis customs 41/14 fees due to a bishop.

bithyn 169/1 within.

bitwene 72/6 see bytwene.

bitwixt 200/12.

blode 167/32 kinsman. Obscure passage: meaning perhaps is that the land had been offered for sale to a relative of the king.

bodely 132/10.

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