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An acknowledgment given by the prior of the Blessed Mary and St. Nicholas of Ledes, Canterbury diocese, collectors of the second half of a subsidy granted by the clergy to the king 6 Feb. 1511, to the prior of Wallingford for 2s. in Newinton. Dated 12 Dec., 1512.

Drayton. 1534.

Drayton. 1534.

Drayton. 1540.

Drayton. 1540.

Drayton. 1547.

Drayton. 1547.

Drayton. 1558-1559.

Drayton. 1558-1559.

Drayton. 1594.

CAVERSHAM, Oxon. Indenture made 23 Dec., 27 Hen. VIII, between Richard Ridge, the abbot, and convent of Notteley on the one part, and William Rolte , sergeant at arms, of the other, being a lease of the church and parsonage of Caversham, co. Oxon, for 66 years, at an annual rent of £8.

COWLEY (Temple). Indenture made 31 Sept. (sic), 22 Henry VII, between Katherine, the prioress, and convent of Litullmore of the one part, and Henry Ivory of Churchecowley and John Ivory , son of the said Henry, son and heir of Alice , late the wyff of the said Henry, daughter and heir of John Smyth, late of Oxford , in the same countie, of the other part, witnesseth that the said prioress and convent covenants to pay to the said Henry an annuity of 26s. 8d. during his life, for a house and land in Temple Cowley and Churchecowley, in the which William Porter, clerk, and John Eggecombe, gent., with others, were infeoffed; the prioress and convent also agreeing to find commons, a chamber within their priory, to bury in their church, and provide yearly an obit for the said Henry.

Indenture made 12 August, 9 Hen. VIII, by which dame Kateryn Wellys, the prioress, and convent of Lytyllmore demise to Richard Stokker of Sanforde , their ferm of Sanforde called Lytyllmore ferm, to hold the same for 21 years, paying annually £3.

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]

ARDLEY. Institution by William, archbishop of Canterbury (the see of Lincoln being then vacant), of master John London, LL.D., to the church of Ardley, vacant by the death of William Gylys, chaplain, on the presentation of William Billyng, gent., the patron. Dated in the' manor of Lamehith, 5 March, 1520.

BENSINGTON. Bond for £20 given by John Stampe of Chollsey, co. Berks , to Richard Cox , the dean and chapter of Christ Church, for keeping in repair the parsonage house and barn of Bensington. Dated 29 August, 36 Hen. VIII.

CHALGRAVE. Articles of agreement between the dean and chapter of Christ Church and Roger Quatermayn of Chalgrave, co. Oxon, yeoman, of the one part, and William Standisshe of Oxford, gent., of the other part, agreed 16 May, 3rd Q. Elizabeth, to abide the award of Edmund Plowden as to how far the portion of tithes called Becco herlewyn or Beckharvest tithes in Chalgrave do extend and be leviable; with bond for 100 given by William Standisshe attached.

William Englond, LL.B., quit-claims to Nicolas Mason, clerk, vicar of Wedon , all his right and interest in that messuage with gardens, curtilages and appurtenances in the suburbs of the city of Oxford without the south gate between the east angle of the King's College or Frideswide the virgin, where the church of St. Michael first was on the north and a certain lane there leading from the highway as far as 'Schelvingstol' on the south. Dated at Porloke, 9 June, 25 Hen. VIII.

Margaret Cliff , widow of Thomas Cliff, late of Enfield , quit-claims to John Hedde and Henry Crampe all her right in lands, tenements, &c. formerly her husband's, within and without the city of Oxford. Dated 20 October, 5 Hen. VIII.

Nicholas Mason, LL.B., vicar of Murrelynch, co. Somerset , grants to King Henry VIII a messuage with a garden without the south gate at Oxford. Dated 8 May, 38 Hen. VIII. (See Ch. 175.) .

Deed by which John Underhill, the rector, and the fellows of Lincoln appoint Anthony Hartley, M.A., and Anthony Wyllyams their attornies to receive possession of the Maidenhead Inn and another tenement in All Saints' parish, Oxford. Dated 17 day of May, 22 Q. Elizabeth.