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Joan Gaunt and Alice her sister, daughters of Thomas Gaunt of Wouborne , quit-claim to John Edmound of Beknesfeld all their right in a croft called 'Beast Norchardyn,' in the parish of Wouborne, together with a common lane leading from Beknesfeld to Maydenheth. Dated at Beknesfeld, 13 Ed. IV. (Barely legible.) .

Indenture by which Christiana Shrevenham, the prioress, and convent of Lytilmore demise their manor of Haywode, co. Berks, with a certain pasture called Cotons, together with the lands and tenements to the same manor belonging in Leverton, to John Clydesdale of Leverton , for his life, paying annually to the said priory seven marks sterling. Dated 1 October, 4 Hen. VII.

Description of the ancient boundaries of the city of Oxford, written in French. Temp. Hen. VI, viz : "These are the boundaries and extent of the liberty of the town of Oxford, commencing at the pile bridge (pount tretable, draw bridge) above Petypount, and following by the course of the river Charwell as far as to a ditch called 'Creddelak,' otherwise ' Mountagueslake,' running between the meadow of St. Frideswide, which meadow is within the said liberty, and the meadow called Mountaguesmede, which ditch separates the counties of Oxford and Berks, and the said ditch runs as far as the Thames at 'Grauntpount,' running under an arch called 'Dencheworthesabowe,' and thus along the Thames, between the friars preachers who are within the said town, and a meadow called 'Erlicheseyt' and the meadow of the abbey of Abingdon, which meadows are without the said liberty, and the meadow called Kingesmede which is within the said liberty, and thus as far as to the ferry to Henxseie, and from thence as far as to a ditch called 'Soundreseyes lake,' and beyond as far as to the mills of Botele, and from thence as far as to 'Wowelake' and from thence and from the isles of Wyke, Bunsey, Midley, Cropley, and Portmanseyt, which isles are all within the said liberty, and thus as far as to the bridge of Godstowe. And the said liberty descends from the said bridge to Wolgarcote, and from thence as far as to a ditch called la Grenediche, and beyond this to Charewell, which runs from Halywell and the hospital of St. John, as far as to the said pile bridge above Petypount, the which Halywell and hospital are within the said liberty." .

ARDINGTON, co. Berks. Indenture made between the abbot and convent of Oseney of the one part, and John Grove of Ardynton, co. Berks , of the other part, witnesseth, that the abbot and convent have demised to farm to the said John their great and small tithes of their demesne lands of Ardynton for 10 years, paying annually for the same £4. Dated at Oseney on the feast of St. Barnabas, 1434.

PUSEY, ARDINGTON, HARWELL, LEDCOMB, and ELSTON. Confirmation by Robert, the bishop of Salisbury , to the abbot and convent of Oseney, of an annual pension of 4 marks from the goods of the church of Peseya by the hands of the vicar for the time being, likewise 2 parts of the tithes of the lordship of Ardyngton, and 2 parts of all things titheable in the lordships of Harewell and Ledecombe, and the tithes of 3 hides and the mill of Elstone. Dated in the monastery of Abendon, 12 Dec., 1432.

WALLINGFORD, co. Berks. Richard Kent, alderman of Oxford , and Joan his wife, with the assent and consent of one another, grant to Richard Leyceter, the abbot, and convent of Oseney, the whole of their tenement situated in the parish of St. Mary the greater, Wallingford, in exchange for a shop and garden in All Saints', Oxford. Dated at Wallingford, 11 August, 1 Rich. III.

Indenture by which the abbot and convent of Oseney demise to Richard ... their rectory, &c. of Upton, with a croft called West crofte for ... years at an annual rent of £22. (Temp. Hen. VI.) [Mutilated.] .