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SEDBERGH. The foundation charter and ordinances of the grammar school of Sedbergh, containing the signatures of K. Ed. VI, E. Somerset , T. Cant., R. Ryche, chanc. W. Wilteshr , I. Bedford , W. Northt , E. Clynton , T. Darcy , G. Cobham , T. Ely . (Not dated, mutilated.) .

The Tailor tenement in Longemershe. Adam son of Henry of Bradwell confirms the above ⟨(see MS. D. D. Ch. Ch. D. 59)⟩.

The counterpart to MS. D. D. Ch. Ch. D. 30. [Fragmentary.]

Daventry, Drayton, Norton, and Staverton. Power of attorney to William Brown of N⟨orton⟩ to deliver seisin of the above. Same witnesses, ⟨see MS. D. D. Ch. Ch. D. 66.⟩

Cold-Ashby. N. prior [&c.] of D⟨aventry⟩ grant to William son of Bastian of Esseby a virgate of land in E. not to be alienated to men of religion, to hold from them as his father held it. Rent: ½ mark. Witnesses: Robert de Esseby , Yngold de Esseby , Adam de Mundeuil , Hugh the carter , Richard Friday . [Torn.] ⟨1230–50.⟩

Norton. ‘Per hanc cedulam indentatam declaratur tenura Thome Harres de omnibus terris et pratis que libere tenet de priore de D⟨avintre⟩ in campis de Nortone iuxta D. predictam videlicet ...’ (Total) in the East field 7 acres and a strip. ” ” ” South ” 5 ” 3 roods. ” ” ” West ” 5 ” a strip and 2 roods. i.e. 18 acres and 5 roods. The situation of each half-acre-strip, and the tenant on either side, is given. [Attached to MS. D. D. Ch. Ch. D. 100.]

Welton. A slip of parchment about 1½” × 3”. ’Nomina Somm[onitorum] Alexander de Snoscumbe chaplain, [Snorscumbe, Everdon parish, N’hants.]. Brother Oliver de Esseby Canonicorum . Henry of Wedone in D⟨aventry⟩ Robert of Draytone in the same. William Wyleys in the same. Geoffrey child of D⟨aventry⟩ . William in angulo of Falwesle . John the clerk of the same. William le Eyr of the same. Geoffrey the cook of Haddone . William Giggel of Falewesle . John son of Gilbert of the same. William Parke of Haddone . Hugh of Booltone . John Slyman of D⟨aventry⟩ […] [m]essor of Falewesley. Richard le Eyr of Trope . Richard Pyn of Nottone . xviii Jur’.’

Welton. Notes of the pleadings for priory.

Welton. Notes of the pleadings for parishioners.

Welton. Notes used in the Welton case, ’Intendit probare procurator prioris [etc.]’, adding nothing, save that dead parishioners were always carried to Daventry and buried in the cemetery there.

Welton. Robert, prior, &c., of D⟨aventry⟩ grants to Robert son of Robert Brown of D⟨aventry⟩ , for his homage and service ½ virgate and 6 acres of land with a messuage, which Hugh of Drayton once held from them in Weleton. Rent 16/-. Free of all services except forinsec service and suit to the monastic court. Witnesses: Sir Robert fitz-Walter, lord of Daventry , Sir Robert Mallore , kts., Semannus of Stokes , Robert Ace , William Hoc of Weleton , Geoffrey Katerich , William Herbert . ⟨1264–69.⟩

One membrane of a late 13th-century extent of the ⟨Daventry⟩ Priory lands. [Partly illegible.]

View of Account of Thomas Knyght, prior of D⟨aventry⟩ , running from March 25, 32 Hen. VI to Michaelmas next. [3 ms.]

Oxford, St. Aldate’s

Oxford, St. Peter-le-Bailey Prior and Convent of St. Frideswide v. Hugh of Lincoln as to an annual payment of 40s. Judgement of the Official of the Archdeacon of Oxford for the former. Seal lost.

Stockwell Mead. Seal lost.

Hungerford Notification of a papal inspeximus. R. (Durham) W. (Salisbury) and ... (Lichfield). Given ‘in Castrum apud Kenilworth’ 6 Kal. ... and given at Warwick Kal. Sept. Pontif. …

A paper book, roughly bound with 2 leaves from a theological treatise (written late 13 c.), containing 15 leaves and part of a sixteenth.

• (i) ‘This book made the 24th daye off Junii in the yere off our lorde Gode 1548 barynge wytnis of alle suche resetts that John of Sonagyr, prist, have resevyd off Mr. Bellser of Oxford ffor the reparcyons (sic) off the chaunselle of Thornbury as herafter folowythe.’ Total receipts, £49. Total spent, £46/11/1. Audited 22 August 3 Ed. VI by Alexander Belsyr .
• (ii) Similar account made 23 August, same year, Receipts (including the arrears) and payments balance at £14/3/-.

‘The number of acres of lande and meade of Thomas Denton, Esq., belonging unto the personage of Stratton Audelye in the countye of Oxforde whiche landes John Burlesc’, Esq., lorde of the sayde manour of Stratton hath in exchange of the sayde Thomas Denton four other landes in the sayde Fealdes and lordeship of Stratton as hereafter ensueth.’

• (i) (demesne) 10 a. 1 rood, and a butt.
• (ii) Now in the tenure of Robert Macham , 3½a.
• (iii) Now in the tenure of Thomas King , 2a. 1r. 16½ ‘doles’ of meadow.
• (iv) T.D.’s freehold, late the possession of the monastery of Cirencester and now in the tenures of William Jakeman and John Tytmowse and Alice Arnebowrough . 1½ a. and 3½ ‘doles’ of meadow in Stretton. [These lands and the lands for which they were exchanged, are set forth strip by strip against each other, with the situation of each.]

Transcripts of

• (i) Letters patent of Henry VIII, granting to Ch. Ch., the manors of Binsey, Magde Morton, &c. lately of the Church of St. Mary’s, Oxford. This is not complete, the English notes show it was drawn up for use in a lawsuit—’ 5. Here is omitted many things not Material to this case.’
• (ii) 4 charters which will be numbers 780, 781, 782, 785 in the sixth volume of Mr. Salter’s Oseney Chartulary.

Is a copy of the lease ⟨MM. 25⟩.

Is the chancery copy ⟨of MM. 25⟩.

(i) Napper’s Answer stated that Royse ’s lease did not begin until the expiring of a former lease (dated 15 March 27 Hen. VIII) to the same H. R. for 31 years. This lease he bought from H. R. He claimed to have cut no timber unlawfully, and to have erected buildings at his own cost. The Replication (MM. 28 (ii)) stated that the lease of 15 March 27 Hen. VIII was void, because Robert King was not yet abbot, and that this made void also the second lease. The Rejoinder (MM. 28 (iii)) denied this. The Depositions of the witnesses for Ch. Ch. (MM. 28 (iv)) and for the defendant (MM. 28 (v)) seem to show that Ch. Ch. was really seeking for a decree to enable them to raise the rent. ( John Wright , burser of Ch. Ch., pointed out, and the other witnesses agreed that Church Cowley was worth £12 per annum.) Emphasis is laid on the evils of the long leases and low rents which had been bequeathed to them by the monasteries. e.g. Thomas Smyth said that ‘in the tyme when Doctor Ravis was first Deane of the saide Colledge, the house was in such want that they were not able to pay for there bred and other Commons, neither yet had they beene able to maynteyne the house and Commons thereof, yf divers men had not beene with them for the payment of great summes of money which they then owed for such necessaries as weare for the mayntenaunce of there ordinary Commons’. (MM. 28 (iv) ff. 8 and 9.) Richard Rice said that he ‘hath knowne the said Colledge in such extremities that the Deane and Chapter thereof have heretofore thought uppon a dissolution of the same Colledge for a tyme’. (ib. f. 6.) Other witnesses were for Ch. Ch., Walter Parsons, a member of the College, and Richard Browne, yeoman; for William Napper , William Symonds, gentleman, of Church Cowley , John White of Forest Hill, labourer, William Nashe of Iffley, mason.

A paper book containing Rolls of the Court Baron of Church Cowley (ff. 1–12, of which 8–12 are blank), in the following order:

• 6 April 1620 held by William Goodwin, doctor of Laws.
• 27 July 1620 held by William Goodwin, doctor of Laws
• 20 March 1620 held by Richard Corbett doctor of Laws
• 17 July 1623 held by Richard Corbett doctor of Laws
• 26 April 1625 held by Richard Corbett doctor of Laws
• 15 September held by Richard Corbett doctor of Laws
• 11 May 1627 held by Richard Corbett doctor of Laws
• 3 April 1630 held by Brian Duppa doctor of Laws.