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Edmund Asshefeld of Eave Elme, Esq., is bound to Ch. Ch. in £40, if he does not save them harmless concerning two geldings which they 3have delivered to him. 12 Jan. ⟨1557.⟩

1526. Copies of

• (i) A deed of gift from Balliol College (see Balliol College Deeds, p. 96), dated 18 April, 1526. [MM. 50A is the original.]
• (ii) Robert Carter ’s testimony (ibid, no 212).
• (iii) Edward I’s grant to Burnell (ibid. no 178).
• (iv) The Bill in Chancery and the depositions (ibid. no. 214).
• (v) An abstract of the Bill.

Edmund Irisshe, mayor, and the bailiffs &c. of Oxford lease to Thomas (?) Hore , a garden called Trilmilbowe late of James Gardiner , between Henry Milmon ’s garden on the south, and certain tenements called the Towre Hills on the north. For 21 years from the Annunciation last past. Rent: 6/8. [A transcript, somewhat later.] 4 June ⟨1544.⟩

Grant by the mayor &c. of Oxford to Henry VIII of (i) a garden now held by John Hore , about a rood of land, lying near ‘King Henry Theights Colledge’, (ii) a piece of meadow called Shrelake, in the meadow called Fryswith’ Meade, (iii) a garden lying by the King’s Alms House, (iv) a garden occupied by Vynehall or Pecwater’s Inn, (v) a house called Jure Schole or Cyvyll Schole, (vi) a little garden held by Canterbury College, (vii) a toft in which was built a tower late of S. Michael’s at the Suth Gate, (viii) a tenement and garden in the parish of S. Michael’s at the South Gate. All of which are now held by the said College, and lie within or hard by the circuit and precincts of the College. 10 Oct. ⟨1546.⟩ ]

Lease by Ch. Ch. to John Vawse, yeoman, for his good service, of a garden and tenement in the parish of S. Aldate’s, abutting on the High Street on the West, the house sometimes called Peckwater’s House on the East, New Lane on the North, and a Ch. Ch. tenement, held by Richard Beverley , on the South, in the same way that Robert Brassegrydell (Bracegirdle) now holds it, on the expiry of a lease made to Robert Beuboive . For 31 years. Rent: 13/4. 15 Jan. ⟨1555.⟩

Lease to Thomas Kent (who signs), prebendary of Ch. Ch., of their garden adjoining the Dean’s garden, lately occupied by Alexander Belsyre , sometime prebendary of Ch. Ch. and now farmed by Thomas. For 21 years from Midsummer last past. Rent: ‘Halfe an haunche of a Bucke, or a Syde thereof, or eight pence of lawfulle English money to a pottell of wyne, yf it be demaunded.’ 19 July ⟨1560⟩

Lease to John Laus M.A., of their tenement and garden in St. Aldate’s, abutting on the High Street on the West, the Ch. Ch. timber yard on the East, a tenement lately occupied by Thomas Smyth, baker, on the South, and the new lane on the North. For 40 years. Rent: 13/4. 22 Dec. ⟨1587.⟩

Memorandum of Ch. Ch. rents. ⟨1555–….⟩ Mr. Irysshe ought to pay yearly to thuse of Cryst Churche in Oxford for 2 gardeins abought the place where Elmehaulle stode [v. Oseney Cartulary, i. 101] 5/-. Memd. to demande the arrears. Item the charge in the Sute above ces’. Item Both the old Rentalles and Mr. Gunter ’s Boke doth declare the same. Item the said Mr. Irisshe ought to paye yearely to thuse of the same Churche for a tenement or Shoppe annexed to his owne dwelling howse and taken from the signe of the Starre by yere, 2/6. The old Rentall declareth that Roberte at wood , which was one of Mr. Iryshe’s auncestres, ded paye the same. The other Rentall in parchement declarethe that Relicta Woodwarde ded paye also the same Rent. Mr. Gunter’s Rentall made by hym of the possessions of Osney doth declare noted of his owne hand and settys yt upon Mr. Irysshes’ hed. Yf any Rent be claymed of Cryste Churche to be paide to thuse of the Citie of Oxford, yt may be answered that it doth appere by our Recordes that the Chemberrs of the Citie of Oxford ought to paye to thuse of Cryste Churche aforesaid yerely 8/- out of a tenement lying Behinde Kente’s howse now in the tenure of Thomas Elmes , which 8/- by yere they do not paye.

Seventeenth-century transcripts of (i) a lease by Ch. Ch. to William Kirkman and Alece his wife of two closes lying outside Oseney gate in the parish of S. Nicholas, called the Horse Close (now held by the said William) [except all wood underwood and growing trees]. For 20 years. Rent: 40/-. 2 Aug. ⟨1547.⟩ (ii) A grant (Latin) appointing for life David ap Robert, yeoman, their bailiff, collector of rents, and ruler of all their possessions temporal and spiritual in Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Montgomeryshire, after the death of William Coxe , now possessed of the office. Salary: £16/16/8. [Here the transcript ends: it is followed by fragments of business memoranda, in the same hand.]

Seventeenth-century transcript of a lease by Robert Kinge, bishop of Oxford , to George Owen Esq, Doctor of Philosophy, of his half of the two water-mills commonly called the Castle Mills. 20 April of ⟨1548.⟩ For 80 years. Rent: £11/13/4.

Transcript of a lease to Richard Wellys . [In Oseney Cart. ii. 539, Rewley Lane, tenement no. 1.] 2 June 1556.

Lease to Alexander Noble . [In Oseney Cart. ii. 549, Rewley Lane, ninth tenement.] 30 Sept. 1582.

Indentures in English witnessing that George Neville lord of Bergavenny has sold to Thomas Cumberford , for £580, his manor of Wyggynton, to the value of £28/13/4 a year, free of all charges whatsoever. 10 May ⟨1513.⟩

Thomas Cumberford Esq., of Cumberford is bound to George Nevell Lord of Borgevenny, kt., in £400, payable at Easter. (Latin.) 16 Feb. ⟨1520.⟩ The condition of the bond is that if T. C. keep the award of Master Cuthbert Tunstall, master of the Kingis Recordes and Rollys, Sir Robert Brudenell , and Sir Lewes Pollard , kts., two of the king’s Justices, touching the right to the manor of Wiggington; and if the said arbitration cannot end the dispute he is to stand by the award of Cardinal Wolsey .

George Nevyle, kt., lord of Bergavenny, gives power to attorney to John Duke to receive from Thomas Comberford Esq., documents relating to the manor of Wiggington, according to the award of Cardinal Wolsey . (Signed) G. Bergawinne . 13 Dec. ⟨1520.⟩

Indenture, reciting the disputes between lord B⟨ergavenny⟩ and T⟨homas⟩ C⟨umberford⟩ and noting that the decree in Chancery had not been carried out, and witnessing that lord B. has now granted the manor of W⟨igginton⟩ to T. C. for £180, of which £120 has already been paid, and for £29 a year. T. C. then conveyed his right in the manor to others, as shown by a fien [see MM. 100]. 20 June ⟨1523.⟩

Letters patent exemplyfying a fine made on the morrow of All Souls, 15 Hen. VIII, by which George Nevile, kt., Th. Cumberforth Esq., and Dorothy his wife, granted to John Fitz-James, kt., chief baron of the Excheqor, Thomas Fitzherbert, clerk, Antony Babyngton Esq., Roland Babyngton , William Whithalghe and Edmund Tumour , the manors of Wyggyngton and Cumberforthe for £29 a year. 6 Nov. ⟨1523.⟩

Exemplification, at the request of John Fitz-James &c., of a Recovery by which the same recover the manor of Wyggynton against Thomas Cumberforth and Dorothy his wife. 16 Nov. ⟨1523.⟩

Exemplification, at the request of Rowland Hill , R. W., &c., of their recovery (dated Michaelmas Term 25 Hen. VIII) of the £29 rent from G⟨eorge⟩ N⟨eveille⟩ lord of B⟨ergavenny⟩. 28 Nov. ⟨1533.⟩

Fine by which George Nevyle, kt., lord of Bergevenny, grants to Rouland Hylle , Richard Wylsone , Thomas Lee , William Cotton , and William Hylle , John Gratewood , and Thomas Dyremayne , a rent of £29 in Wyggyntone, Hoppas Cotton, Cumberford, and Tamworth. For this they gave him £600. (Both halves of the indenture are preserved.) ⟨27 Jan.⟩ 1534.

21 July ⟨1534.⟩ Letters patent of Hen. VIII inspecting (i) George Lord Burgavenny’s bill in Chancery against Thomas Cumberforth . The plea is that T. C. acquired the manor of Wyggynton for £580, but on condition that he should restore it to G. lord B. if the latter repaid the purchase money, with a sum to be decided by the arbitration of Sir John Aston and Sir Edward Ferrers , kts., for improvements, within 6 years. On his refusal to do so G. lord B. filed this complaint. (ii) the sub poena summoning T. C. (6 Nov. 10 Hen. VIII). (iii) The answer of T. C., who denied that the sale had been conditional. They had made the bargain about the 8th of May 5 Hen. VIII, and the indentures had been drawn up on the 10th., but lord B. would not seal them until he had received £100 in part payment from T. C., and when this had been done he still refused to seal, demanding the £100 as a loan until his return from France. T. C. replied that this was impossible, as he had pledged his lands to the clear yearly value of £32/13/4 in order to raise the £580, but lord B. would not return the £100. Lord B. then went to France. Afterwards one Doctor Roote, ‘being of Counseille with the seid lord, movyd unto the seid’ T. C., that if lord B. repaid the £580 he should have back his manor. Thomas disagreed, but not knowing how he should come to the perfection of his bargain nor to the repayment of his money, sealed the bill which lord B. had drawn up containing the above mentioned condition. The deposition of Dr. Roote (doctor in decrees and parson of Bukstes in Sussex , age 49) examined 30 Nov. 10 Hen. VIII, said that the Easter before the king went abroad, he, John Roote his brother, Walter Myles , Antony Fitzherbert sergeant at law &c. were with lord B. in his place at Paternoster Row in London, when the said bargain was made. John Roote drew up the bill containing the conditional clause there on 6 June 5 Hen. VIII, and T. C. sealed it without any compulsion. ‘Which bill was then made in great haste because the king was in preparyng him toward Canterbury and had ywyn knowledge to lye at the seid lordes place at Birlyng.’ William Leicester of Coffeton (Worcs.) gentleman, age 78, said that about 5 years ago, when he gave up his office of Receivership in Staffordshire under lord Burgavenny, he was present in Paternoster Row and heard the terms of the conditional sale, and the fact that the condition was sealed before the indentures. John Roote of Litlyngton (Sussex), gentleman, 60, also present, and wrote the bill. Walter Myles , receiver to part of the lands of the lord B., gent., aged 47. For T. C. Rychard Covert of Slagham (Sussex) Esq., age 54, examined 9 Feb. 10 Hen. VIII, said that 4 Hen. VIII there had been ‘a variaunce’ between T. C. and lord B. by reason of their two manors adjoining in Staffordshire, and that T. C. asked him to approach lord B. about leasing the manor to T. C. John Lucas servant of T. C., 33 yrs., said that Antony Babyngton had in Westminster Hall, on May 12, reported to him his lord’s willingness to sell the manor. He was present at the bargain, in Lord B.’s place ‘beside the pollis’, in London. His master was under the impression that he had made a clear purchase. William Sabyn, servant of T. C., age 30, remembered that his lord had told him that he had ‘smitten a pleyn bargayne’ with lord B. Antony Babyngton, examined 21 Feb. 11 Hen. VIII (adds nothing). A memorandum follows, to the effect that Lord B. produced in Chancery the bill containing the 6 years clause. The result was that lord B. recovered the manor, and the arbitrators [ Cuthbert Tunstall, Master of the Rolls, Robert Brudenell, kt., Lewis Pollerd, kt.] were ordered by a certain date to give judgment on the amount of damages.

Exemplification, at the request of William Hill , of MM. 103. 21 April ⟨1535.⟩

Indenture between Rolande Hill, citizen and mercer of London , and Sir Thomas Pope, kt., witnessing that whereas the late G⟨eorge⟩ N⟨evile⟩ lord of B⟨ergevenny⟩ , by an indenture, dated 2nd Nov. 25 Hen. VIII, between him and the said R. H. reciting that whereas the said Lord B. had received the rent of £29 of the grant of John Fitz-James, Lord Chief Justice, Anthony Babyngton, kt., Rouland Babyngton, gentleman, William Whethalle and Edmonde Toumer of Hythefelde , and now granted it to R. H., by this indenture R. H. grants it to Sir Thomas Pope , for £580. 6 May ⟨1541.⟩ R. H. is bound in 1000 marks to observe this. (Bond and indenture both signed by R. H.) Enrolled in Chancery on May 11th.

Letters patent of Humfraye Cumberforthe, gentleman, son and heir of the late Thomas C⟨umberforthe⟩ , gentleman, Whereas Roland Hill granted to Sir Thomas Pope the rent of £29 arising out of the manors of W⟨igginton⟩ &c., 24 messuages, a water-mill, 1000 acres of land, 120 acres of meadow, 200 acres of pasture, 5 acres of woode, 160 acres of ‘Furres and Hethe’, and £16 rent for fishing rights in the water of Tame, in W⟨igginton⟩ , Hoppas, C⟨umberford⟩ , Cotton, and Tamworth, of which rents H. C. is now owner, H. C. now confirms them to Sir Thomas Pope. 31 May ⟨1541.⟩

Indenture on paper, in English, witnessing that Richard Duke, gent., Clerk of the treasury of the Court of Augmentations , has received from Sir Thomas Pope, kt., one box containing ‘syxtene pece of evidens, writinges, obligaciones and munyments’, concerning a rent of £29 from the manors of Wiggington, and Comberford (Staff.) and divers lands and tenements in W⟨igginton⟩ and C⟨omberford⟩ , Hoppas Cotton, and Tamworth, which the said Sir Thomas lately sold to the King. (Signed Tho: Pope.) 10 Dec. 1545.