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CHALKFORD, CHINNOR, STOKENCHURCH, etc. Indenture made between William de Stevyngton, the prior, and convent of Wallingford of the one part, and the lady Alianor Rohant , Simon parson of Adwell , and Thomas Osgar, clerk, of the other, witnesseth that the said prior and convent demise to the said lady Alianor and others the manor of Chalkford, together with view of frankpledge there, and all lands and tenements, rents and services, which the same prior and convent have in Chinnore, Wilnehale, Kyngeston, and Henton, together with view of frankpledge in Chinnore, and with the tithes of the church of Aston Rohant with all its members, reserving nevertheless to the said prior and convent the whole of the hay of the manor of Aston and a meadow called 'blake' if the said prior and convent have flocks and lambs there, and not otherwise: the tithes of the chapel of Stokenchurch, the wood of Chalkford with a croft adjacent, and the presentations and pensions of the church of Chinnore and the vicarage of Aston excepted; to hold the same for their lives at an annual rent of £60. Dated at Wallingford the Wednesday on the morrow of St. Michael, 34 Ed. III.

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.⟩