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Mandate from Edward, Prince of Wales, to the seneschal of the honour of Wallingford, to release entirely any distraint on the lands of the monastery of Oseney. Dated 5 Ed. III. [Mutilated.] .

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.

BOTLEY and SECKWORTH, co. Berks. Katherine , relict of John , son of Andrew Culvert of Ziftele , grants to ... of Botele and Katherine his wife and John de Bibury all her right for the term of her life in land in Bottele and Seukeworth. Dated ... St Vincent, 8 Ed. III. [Mutilated.] .

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.

HINCKSEY, Berks. William de Musewell and Joan de Boteleye his wife, quit-claim to the church of Oseney all their right in a spring of water in the field of Hincksey (North Hinksey or South Hinksey) which is called 'Reve-mores-well,' and in all the rivulets and water-courses running to or from the said spring to the abbey. (c. 1260-80.) .

PUSEY, co. Berks. H[ubert], bishop of Salisbury , confirms to the canons of Oseney the church of Pesi with its appurtenances. (1188-93.) .

Ralph de Chaisneto grants to the church and canons of St. Mary, Oseney, two hides of land in Pesi. (c. 1200-10.) [Mutilated.] .

Chirograph of W[illiam], bp. of Salisbury , concerning the temporary payment of an annual pension of ten marks to Robert, the treasurer of Salisbury , by the abbey and convent of Oseney, patrons of the church of Peseia, Salisbury diocese which had been granted to Marinus, formerly vice-chancellor of the Pope. Dated at Salisbury on the feast of St. Michael, 1252.

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.

WANTAGE, co. Berks. Grant from Robert, [natural] son of King Henry I , with the counsel of Henry D'Oilly his brother, in frankalmoigne, to the church of Oseney, of 10 pounds worth of land in his manor of Wanenting. Witnessed Hugh de Camville . (c. 1150.) [Endorsed by Hearne as having been given to him by Reb. Edw. Lye, 2 Sept. 1730.] (Erroneously said in Monest. Angl. to be in the Cotton Library.) .

UPTON. Convention between C[lement], the abbot, and convent of Oseney of one part, and Harding de Upton of the other part, by which the said abbot and convent grant to the said Harding one virgate of land in Upton, ... 2 messuages, a field, ... and ten acres of arable land, for his life, paying 6s. annually. (c. 1210-20.) [Mutilated.] .

Convention beween Herding de Upton , and Oseney, by which he delivers to Oseney ... acres of his land in Upton to farm, of that virgate of land which he holds of the said canons. Dated at Stanes, feast of St. John Baptist. ([12]30.) [Fragment.] .