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John Clare, the prior, and convent of Wallingford demise to John Hanson the whole of their land, and an island in the suburb of Wallingford, for 31 years, at an annual rent of 6s. 8d. Dated 18 Nov., 7 Hen. VIII.

A paper containing a covenant for reparations of all the buildings granted, &c. Signed Griffith Payne , and endorsed for roomes in Wallingford. Cent. xvi.

REMENHAM. Agnes Stokfeld of Redyng grants to Henry Hethercote, yeoman, and others, a messuage, 20 acres of arable land, 6 acres of meadow, 5 acres of pasture, and a little island in the parish of Remenham. Dated at Remenham, 26 Feb., 1 Hen. VIII.

Exchequer Constat for £23 6s. 8d. for one year's profits of the King's manor of Shaw, viz. for the year 36 and 37 Hen. VIII.

SHAW. Exchequer Constat for £23 6s. 8d. for the farm of the manor of Shawe, in New Windsor, held by Nicholas Good . Dated 6 Feb., 30 Hen. VIII.

STRETLEY. Deed reciting letters patent, dated 24 April, 15 Elizabeth, by which a messuage and appurtenances in Stretley, parcel of the possessions of sir Francis Englefield, kt., then in her Majesties hands by forfeiture of the said Francis, by his going out of the kingdom, were granted to one Griffith Barton , from whom they came to Andrew Blunden , Humphrey Purcell, and Arthur Nedeham, and by them are again granted to the Crown. Dated 20 Nov., 27 Eliz.

Indenture made 20 Nov., 22 Hen. VII, by which Katherine, the prioress, and the convent of Lytylmor demise to Thomas Hall and John Cledysdale the younger their manor of Heywoode, co. Berks, with a certain pasture called Cotons, and all other their lands in Leverton for 33 years at an annual rent of £4 13s. 4d.

King Henry VIII, by letters sealed, confirms the union and incorporation of the churches or chapels of Hedyngton, Merston, Byndesey, Churchill, Frytewell, Ellsfylde, Wornall, Oclee, Bryll, Borstall, Overwinchindon, Fallewysley, Great [Preston] and Little Preston, Welton, West Haddon, Stratton, Norton, Coldeassheby, Daventre, Throppe, Throppe-Mondewell, Foxston, Stalforde, Byssebroke, Chycheley, Newporte Paynell, Ascewodde, Wyllyn, Sandeforde, Wodde pery, Douton basset, Ragdale, Aston, Bromyngham, Rudeby and Wettwange, in Lincoln, Lichfield, and York dioceses; also annual portions from the churches or parishes of St. Giles without the walls of Oxford, Fulthorn, Beckeley, Lovyngham, Uppelamborn, and Sonyngwell, in the dioceses of Lincoln and Salisbury, formerly belonging to the suppressed monasteries of St. Frideswide, Tyckford, Littlemore, and Canwall; made by Thomas Crumwell, K.G., to King Henry VIII's college in Oxford. Dated 31 July, 1537, and 29 year of his reign. [Wigram no. 96]

An acknowledgment that William Barton, canon and seneschal of the monastery of Oseney , had received of the abbot and convent of Abingdon 13s. 4d. for the work of 32 men of Hincksey (North Hinksey or South Hinksey) for working in Mede Heye, alias King's Mede, behind Oseney. Dated 20 October, 19 Hen. VII.

At a court held at Upton, co. Berks, 5 October, 16 Hen. VII, Rich. Newington took of the lord one messuage and half a virgate of land in the village and fields of Upton, lately in the tenure of William Rychemond , to have and to hold according to the custom of the manor.

Hungerford ‘Compotus domini Iohannis Burton prior prioratus sive monasterii ibidem ac occupant’ officii Rec’ Generalis & Superius omnium maneriorum terrarum et tenementorum ac bonorum spiritualium et temporalium pertinentium dicto monasterio videlicet a vigilia annunciacionis beate Marie virginis anno regni Regis Henrici VIII quinto usque eandem Vigiliam extunc proxime sequens anno eiusdem Regis sexto scilicet per unum annum integrum.’ ⟨24 March 1514–24 March 1515.⟩

Thomas Wolsey by a fine grants to his College (i) the manors of Wallyngford, Westhenreth and Clopcote and 30 messuages, 1000 acres of land, 60 acres of meadow, 200 acres of pasture, 50 acres of wood, 500 acres of fields and £30 rent in W⟨allyngford⟩ , W⟨esthenreth⟩ , and C⟨lopcote⟩ , and Conyngton, Kerswelle, Bucklond, Southmorton, Ardyngton, Sotwelle, Brightwelle, Huddisbuddes, North Morton, Aston Torald, and Mulford [Aston Tirrold and Moulsford]; and the advowsons of Westhenreth and S. Mary’s Wallingford; (ii) the manors of Wyng and Swanburn [Bucks] 200 acres of land, 300 acres of pasture, 60 acres of meadow, 60 acres of wood, 200 acres of fields and £6 rent in W. and S. and the advowson of W.; (iii) the manor of Chalkford [in Aston Rowant, Oxon.], 2 water-mills, 20 messuages, 500 acres of land, 100 acres of pasture, 50 acres of meadow, 60 acres of wood, 200 acres of fields and £20 rent in C., Aston Rowant, Stoken-church, Northstoke, Besyngton, Chynnor, Oxford, Brightwelle, Watlyngton, Rytherfeld Pyppard [Rotherfield Peppard], Hudders-buddys, Coxham, Helcombe, Bensyngton, Chalford, Stanlake, Chalgrave, Stokebasset, Newenham, Mapylle Derhame, Henley, Wynhale, Crowmershe, Nettlebed and Nuffeld, and the advowsons of Chynnor, Garsyngton and Aston Rowant, and the chapel of Stokenchurch. ⟨18 Nov. 1528.⟩

1594. ‘A note of the white game belonginge unto the Collegge of Christ Church in the Universitie of Oxford, which have been found this yeare 1594 at the Swan Uppinge time, And what broodes there are of the same and where they doe lye.’ There were 17 old swans: 4 at the high Bridge at Stanton; one each at Stanton Moor, Bynssy church, Broadford, Sandford, Abingdon, Sutton, Sparsy Bridge, Ycfley Mill, Ottmoor, Ruely Lock, Wytam Streeme, Hincksy Mill, and another at Abingdon: also 9 cygnetts.

SHAW. Copy of a roll in the custody of the remembrancer of the Exchequer, 41 Ed. III, being a survey in pursuance of a writ to William de Wukeham and others, dated at Weston, 10 Oct. an. xxxv of all the demesne lands and tenements in Shawe, which the King had by the gift and feoffment of Master William de Polmorna . Temp. Hen. VIII.