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

Brychrik money-maker, Godrike, William, Raph Baker, Leof|wyn budda, Geffrey Miller; and twey shelyngworth of Rent þe which helde fromunde chapeleyne; And tithyng of Nichol of Stodeham, þe which þe same fromunde chapeleyn helde; with|in Hokenorton (myne Maner), halfe an hide of londe þe which was off Hugh ffraunceys, And j. ȝerde-londe, the which Maurice chanon helde and after hym þe sone of the same; and by the castell of oxonford, vndur the wall, a dwellyng þe which was of Waryn chapeleyne; Eton [Marginal note: 'Eton.'] all my towne, with all thynges þe which longe to hit (outetake þe Mille þe which I haue yefe to a-nother church [i.e. to St. Frideswyde's Priory, about 1125: Wigram's Cartulary of St. Frides|wide, ii. 208. This is the mill, called Hulk's mill (from the tenant), which comes in nos. 76-7.] , And sperwesaye ['Sperwesaye,' here excepted, was after|wards given (no. 24) by Henry Doyly I. 'Sparsey Mead' is still the name of the large meadow, east of Cherwell, opposite Watereaton Manor Farm.] ), And so that þat parte þe which my modur holdeth, whenne-so-euer she stynteth ['destiterit.'] to holde hit, þat hit come in-to þe lordeship of the church to þe vse of the breþrynne: Wherefore I woll and pray þat well & in peece, fully and worschipfully, the forsaide thynges þe forsaide church holde, with all customs and fredoms [Marginal note: 'Note þe ffredoms agaynste Cudelynton & Hokenorton,' i.e. against the Plecy family, who acquired these manors, after the Doylys died out, and were rather unfriendly to Oseney.] , þat is to say, in wode and playne, in Medes and ffedynges, in waters [Marginal note: 'fisshing.'] , in wayes and patthis, and all other places, as euer oony oþer man beste afore hit helde or my-selfe helde while þey were in my lorde|ship. These witnesses Walter, Archedecun et cetera.

[13.] A confirmacion of Kyng Henry þe ffirst, þe Sone of William Bastarde, of þe forsaide ȝevyng.

About 1129. Confirma|tion to Oseney, by Henry I, of the founder's grants (as in no. 12) viz.— (a); (k); (e); (d) the six churches, with Watlington added, with manorial juris|diction, and exemptions from courts and taxes (as in no. 7).

HENRY, Kyng of Inglonde and Duke of Normandye, to Archibisshops bisshops Abbotes Erles Barons Justices Shrevys Mynsters and to all his true men of all Inglonde helth. Know ȝe me to haue i-graunted and confermed, in-to perpetuall almys, þe yefte þe which Robert Doylly maade to þe church of saynte Marye þe which he foundid in the Ile of Oseneye ande to the chanons þere servyng god, all þat was his in the same Ile; and all Eton with his lordeship (outetake a mylle); And, with-in the borowgh of oxonford, men And londys the which he had

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