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Copyhold lease, at Court Baron held by William Palmer , under-steward, to William, Richard, and George Faxon , of a messuage and 1½ virgates lately in the tenure of Richard Faxon , their father. 19 March ⟨1590.⟩

14 March ⟨1549.⟩ A bill [in English] witnessing that sir John Williams, kt, receiver of the Court of Augmentations , has received to the King’s use from George Owen Esq. £1028/7/2 for lands belonging to the late

• (i) chapel of S. […] in Cropredy, appurtenant to the chantry of St. John the Baptist in Fyfield.
• (ii) Parish church and chantry of S. Mary Magdalen, Oxford.
• (iii) Chantry of Our Lady in S. Giles’, Oxford.
• (iv) Guild of S. Nicholas in S. Mary’s Church, Oxford.
• (v) Chantry of Bampton.
• (vi) Chantry of Our Lady in Bray.
• (vii) Chantry of St. James in Chipping Norton.
• (viii) Chantry of St. John in the same.
• (ix) Chantry of St. Margaret in Woodstock.
• (x) Guild of Our Lady in Banbury.

License to Ch. Ch. to acquire land in mortmain to the value of £50 and to grant and exchange any possessions of the church, if it be not to the detriment of the said church. 6 June ⟨1562.⟩ There is an excellent portrait of Elizabeth within the initial letter.

Inspeximus of the surrender of all the College lands in 20 May 1545. [See L. and P. Hen. VIII, vol. xx, pt. ii, no. 776.] 3 July ⟨1579.⟩

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.

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.