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Warine de Dorkecestr ' grants to Reginald le Macon, of Abendon , the whole of that land, with appurtenances, which lies between the land of the abbot of Enesham and the land of John Pilet in the parish of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, together with the wall between it and the land of John Pilet , paying annually to the said John Pilet 6s. For this grant the said Reginald paid 10 marks sterling. And know that after the death of Warine de Dorkecestr' his wife Juliana shall not claim dower in the said land because he had assigned to her dower in his land which is in the lane near the land of Roger Noifs , in the parish of St. Abbe. (c. 1240-50.) Witnesses John Pille and Laur. Log , provosts, etc.

Indenture between Thomas, the abbot, and convent of Oseney of the one part, and Thomas Nynehide, principal of Hincksey (Hengsly) hall, situated in Oxford , at the end of a certain lane called Kepeharme lane, in Fish street, of the other part, witnesseth that the abbot and convent have demised to the said Thomas a certain tenement called Grove hall, situated in Pynferthyng strete within the parish of St. Ebbe, in perpetuity, paying annually for the same 9s. Dated at Oseney on the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 22 Hen. VI.

Fragment of a rent roll of the city of Oxford, containing rents in the following parishes, St. Ebbe's, St. Aldate's, and St. Michael's south, St. Giles', St. Mary Magdalen. [Temp. Hen. IV. (c. 1400)] .

Oxford, St. Ebbe’s Charter of the Master and Brethren of St. John's Hospital authorizing Hugh of Saunderton to give a messuage held of them to the Prior and Convent of St Frideswide. ⟨1373, June 11.⟩

Oxford, St. Martin’s Memorandum, in English, of an agreement made 24 September 1 Ric. III. at Oxford in the presence of William Waynflete, bp. of Winchester, between St. F. and Magdalen College. The Priory is to pay (i) 2/2 rent for a messuage and curtilage lying by the East gate by the Priory gate, (ii) 2/- rent for a ‘way’ towards the ground of St. F. (iii) 2/- rent for a stair between two shops in St. Martin’s parish, (iv) 2/- for repairs to a tenement of the prior ‘beside the Carfax, the College having lost 10 years’ profit from it. (v) 8/8 rent for a house by the town wall in the parish of St. Ebbe. The College is to pay (i) 5/8 rent for a house called Swynebrok, late Thomas Hall’s house in the parish of Allhallows. (ii) 5/8 for a hall called Yng Hall in St. Mary’s parish. (iii) 3/5 for a house in the parish of St. Michael in the south. (iv) 8/8 for a house on the north side of the church in the parish of Allhallows. (v) 3/4 for a house by a way leading from the high road to a grange of the priory. (vi) 76/8 for the price of timber cut and carried off thence by the College. (vii) (sum not stated) for timber, faggots, stones, and lime, witheld by the College from the first foundation unto this time. An exchange was made for a house in St. Ebbe’s against the west side of the churchyard on the north side of the street leading to Frideswide Hall, for a piece of land in St. John’s at the east end of Crope lane. The College are to have a house belonging to the Priory above the College tenement on the north side of Carfax, for which the Priory are to have the whole fishing in the Cherwell from the East bridge to the King’s Mill, leaving to the College their right of free passage. The College are to see that no trees overhang on their side that might hinder river traffic or fishing. The priory hold a house and garden in St. Ebbe’s by exchange for a garden in Cat Street, which Lucy Glover (and now John Asshendon Glover) held, and for a little garden that Richard Leke holds. This indenture is not to be prejudicial to the priory’s right to a quit-rent from a house called ‘Feyre Yeomannys Housse’ in St. Mary Magdalen’s. The College have returned the day of the delivery of this indenture a bond of £40 in which the Priory was bound to them. 24 Sept. ⟨1483.⟩

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. Matilda, daughter of Laurence, grants to Walter de Kingston the house she holds under Oseney. Prob. Mich. 1254-Mich. 1255.

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. William Attehole acknowledges the receipt of rent. Nov. 7, 1323.

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. Another version of the same grant [as MS. D. D. Ch. Ch. O. 519]. Mich. 1249-Mich. 1250.

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. Oseney leases the house of Lucia de Botley. Mar. 24, 1377-Mar. 24 1378.

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. Richard de Furno quitclaims a house to Walter le Fox. Feb. 8, 1324.

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. Richard de Furno quitclaims a house to Walter le Fox. Feb. 8, 1324. [Endorsed 'Istud scriptum recognitum fuit coram Willelmo de Burcester maiore Oxon' & scribitur in papiro'. By papirus is meant the Liber Albus or Book of Wills, now in the Town Hall; this document is enrolled there.] The same deed as in MS. D. D. Ch. Ch. 534.

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. Alan of Eton and Isabella his wife quitclaim a house to Walter le Fox. Dec. 14, 1335.

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. The executors of Robert of Hogeston sell a hosue to Philip le Sadler. Nov. 3, 1352.

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. Philip the sadler and Cecilia his wife grant the house to William de Codeshale. Mar. 17, 1363.

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. Alice, widow of William de Codeshale, has granted the house to John Forester. July 15, 1388.

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. John Wilmot grants the property to Roger Spendyng. July 10, 1451.

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. Thomas, rector of Hoggeston, quitclaims to Thomas de Kingeston a messuage once of Robert de Hoggeston. April 13, 1358.

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. Thomas Cook, son of Peter Cook, quitclaims to Joan widow of Thomas Kingestone two messuages in St. Ebbe's. Oct. 28, 1376.

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. Reginald le Tanner returns to mag. John Deneby a toft in St. Ebbe's. Jan. 12, 1390.

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. William Burgeis grants a solar and cellar to Celena. Mich. 1236-Mich. 1237.

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. A receipt for rent paid by Maud Halus. Oct. 18, 1424. [Another acquittance in the same words, see MS. D. D. Ch. Ch. O. 548A.]

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. A receipt for rent paid by Maud Halus. Sept. 30, 1428. [Another acquittance in the same words, see MS. D. D. Ch. Ch. O. 548.]

Oxford, St. Ebbe's parish. Andrew Aleyn, priest, has acquired a house in St. Ebbe's, once of Thomas de Gonewardby. Jan. 31, 1363.

Roll of charters connected with the claim of University college to the property of Walter the goldsmith in the parish of All Saints, Oxford. . Imperfect at the beginning. c. 1385-90. Endorsed with ...(?) by a hand of 17th century.

(a) Geoffrey, the goldsmith, commonly called ..., burgess of Oxford , acknowledges to have received of Gilbert de Gonwardby, burgess of Oxford , £1000, and for security thereof mortgages to him or his attorney 5 tenements in the High Street above the corner of the cemetery of the church of All Saints, and 3 messuages and 3 shops in the parish of St. Mildred, 3 messuages in the parish of St. Martin, 2 cottages in the parish of St. Thomas, one messuage and 3 cottages in the parish of St. Ebbe, 2 messuages in Grauntpount, one cottage in the parish of St. Edward, 2 messuages in the parish of St. John, one messuage in the parish of St. Peter in the east, 3 tenements in the parish of St. Peter in the bailey, 4 tenements and 6 acres of land in Halivelle, 3 messuages in the parish of St. Giles, 20 acres of land in Beaumont and the field of Walton, and 40 acres of meadow behind Oseney in Irland, and Alrychseyte and Swyneshull, and 30s. annual rent going out of divers places in the town. Dated on Whitsunday [17 Hen. III]. Date erased. [Copy of a spurious deed advanced by University college, in support of their title to Gonwardby's lands.]

(b) Gilbert de Gonewardeby, burgess of Oxon , recites the bond given by Geoffrey the goldsmith to himself in £1000 payable on the feast of St. Martin in the winter, 16 years after the date of the said bond, and by this charter covenants with the said Geoffrey, that he shall enjoy the same for his life, reserving to himself and John de Gonewardeby his son, the reversion of the same after the death of the said Geoffrey; the said Gilbert grants and quit-claims to John his son and his heirs all right in the said lands mentioned in (a). Dated at Oxford on the feast of St. Mary the virgin ... Hen. III. (Date erased.) (Spurious.)

(c) Abstracts of charters of lands and rents in 'Bocheria' in All Saints' parish, Oxford. (d) An agreement between John and Walter the goldsmiths , and John Gonwardby, mercer, of Oxford , concerning the bond of £1000 secured by Geoffrey the goldsmith on his lands &c. as described in (a), by which the said lands &c. are granted to John and Walter for their lives. This agreement to be maintained under a penalty of £3000. Dated at Oxford on the morrow of St. Michael the archangel, (9) Hen. III. (Date erased.) (Spurious.)

(e) John de Gonewardeby, mercer, of Oxford , grants to John de Gonewardeby his younger son the reversion of his house in the parish of All Saints, Oxford, between tenements formerly John Goldesmyth 's, after the death of Thomas de Gonewardeby his elder son, also the reversion of all the lands which he had by the gift and feoffment of John the goldsmith and Walter his brother. Dated at Oxford the Thursday on the feast of the Epiphany, ... Ed. II. (Date erased.) (Spurious.)

(f) John .... of Oxford grants to John de Denchesworth and Elizabeth his wife the whole of that messuage in the parish of St. Martin, Oxford, 'in Bocheria.' Dated at Oxford on St. Vincent's day, 13 Ed. III.

(g) Writ of supersedeas in a cause between Edmund Fraunceys and Idonea his wife on the one part, and the master and scholars of University College on the other. Dated at New Sarum, 22 May, 7 Rich. II.

(h) John, son of Walter the goldsmith, of Oxon , grants to John de Gonwardby and his wife Joan , daughter of the said John, the whole of that messuage with appurtenances situated in the parish of All Saints, Oxford, between a tenement he inhabits at the time of making this charter on the west, and the tenement which Philip de Wormenhale holds of him on the east; also he grants to the said John and Joan 8s. annual rent which he was accustomed to receive annually from a tenement of Robert de Gonwardby in St. Ebbe's, Oxon; to hold the same to them and their heirs for ever, in default to revert to the heirs of John son of Walter. Dated at Oxford the Sunday next after the feast of All Saints, 1 Ed. II.

(i) John, son of Walter the goldsmith, of Oxford , grants to John his son all the land and tenements, rents and services, meadows and pastures, with appurtenances, which he has in the town of Oxford, and the counties of Oxon and Berks; to hold the same to him and the heirs of his body by an annual payment of 14 marks of silver, in default of heirs the whole to revert to John Gonwardby and Joan his wife and their heirs; in default to revert to the heirs of the said John son of Walter for ever. Dated at Oxford, 2 July, 1 Ed. II.

(k) Fragment of the pleadings in the suit between Edmund and Idonea Fraunceys and University College.

Rent roll, part of, containing rents from the parishes of St. Peter le Bailey, St. Ebbe, St. Aldate, St. Michael South, St. Giles, St. Mary Magdalen, and St. George, with names. Temp. Hen. IV. [Mutilated.] .