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ALVRYNTON. William de Shareshull and William de Gersyndon appoint John Lucy and William Genet , their attorneys, to accept seisin in their name of all messuages, lands, etc. which Robert Scovile held in Alvrynton. Dated at Alvrynton the Saturday in the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 37 Ed. III.

EDGWORTH. License of alienation granted to Jerome Jefferyes and Mary his wife, to enable them to assign to William Jones alias Lewes a messuage, garden, 20 acres of land, and 4 acres of wood, with appurtenances at Edgworth, co. Gloucester, held of the King in capite. Dated at Westminster, 2 Dec., 15 Chas. I.

KINSTANLEY. Institution by Godfrey, bishop of Gloucester , of James Chadwicke, clerk, M.A., to the rectory of Kinstanley. Dated at le Wyneard near the city of Gloucester, 17 May, 1630.

COLESWORD. Writ of King S[tephen] to R[oger], bishop of Salisbury, the sheriff of Wilts , and others, granting to the monks of Gloucester a wood and 2 assarts with fields adjacent in his manor of Celesw[o]rd in frankalmoigne, in the same manner as William his uncle, as is witnessed by the charter of King Henry. Dated, R. chancellor, at Buref. (c. 1136-38.)

STANEDIS. Final concord made at Gloucester, 30 Hen. II, 5 March, by which Odierna, wife of William, son of William the provost , acknowledges the right of the abbot and convent of Gloucester to 20 acres of land in Stanedis. For this agreement the said abbot and convent granted to the said Odierna and her heirs for ever, one half virgate of land in Stanedis which William her husband held.

EWELEGH. Final concord made at Canterbury on the morrow of the octave of SS. Peter and Paul, 6 Hen. III, by which Peter de Eulegh remits and quit-claims to Henry, the abbot of Gloucester and his successors, all his right in the advowson of the church of Ewelegh.

Arthur Cole, clerk, grants to an annual rent or annuity from a tenement in the town of Gloucester for the term of his life. [Mutilated] Dated 20 August ... 24 Hen. [VIII] (?).

LONGENEYE. Stephen, son and heir of Robert Agu of Longeneye , with the consent of his father, acknowledges to have endowed Agnes, daughter of William Saundres of Longeneye , his wife, at the church door of Longeneye, on Wednesday next after the feast of St. Barnabas the apostle, 5 Ed. III, being the day he espoused her, with the third part of a messuage and one virgate of land in Longeneye.

John L... of Tewkesbury grants to John Whythe of the same place a burgage which he lately acquired by the feoffment of Agnes de Cryckelade in the village of Tewkesbury. Dated at Tewkesbury the Thursday next after the feast of St. Michael 'in monte tumba,' 5 Rich. II.

ARLINGHAM. King Henry II grants in frankalmoigne to the church of St. Leonard of Stanley, the church of Erlingham with all the tithes of the same village, and one virgate of land at Maismore which Roger de Berchelaio gave to the said church in frankalmoigne. Besides he granted to the same church 60s. per annum, namely, Hardacr' de Berchelaio , which the same Roger gave them of his rents, as the charter of Henry his grandfather witnesseth. At Dover, in transitu regis. (c. 1158.)

Thomas, the abbot, and convent of St. Peter's, Gloucester, grant to Robert the clerk , nephew of Peter de Lech, archdeacon of Worcester , the half of the tithes of the lordship of William de Berkeley , in 'Cudberle,' which pertains to the church of St. Leonard of Stanley. (c. 1190.)

STOW on the WOLD. Fine dated at Westminster, Hilary Term, 5 Geo. I, by which John Chamberlayne and Joan his wife quit-claim, etc. to Anne Freeman, widow, their right in a messuage, garden, orchard, and land in the parish of Stowe on the Wold, for which the said Anne paid to the said John and Joan 200 sterling. [Duplicate in Ch. 25]

Duplicate of no. 24. ⟨STOW on the WOLD. Fine dated at Westminster, Hilary Term, 5 Geo. I, by which John Chamberlayne and Joan his wife quit-claim, etc. to Anne Freeman, widow, their right in a messuage, garden, orchard, and land in the parish of Stowe on the Wold, for which the said Anne paid to the said John and Joan 200 sterling. ⟩

THORNBURY. Confirmation by Walter [Reynolds], archbishop of Canterbury , of the appropriation of the church of Thornbury, Worcester diocese, to the abbot and monastery of B. V. M. of Theokesbury, dated 3 id. Feb. 1314, and approved by the prior and chapter of Worc. 10 Kl. Apr. 1314. Dated at Lamhuth, 5th Nones of May, 1316.

LYDNEY. Bond given by Thomas Gethinge alias Marbull of Hereford, yeoman, to the dean and chapter of Hereford, in a sum of 40 marks to keep the condition of certain indentures concerning a lease of the parsonage of Lydney. Dated 15 January, 38 Hen. VIII.

Indenture made 38 Hen. VIII, by which the 15 January, dean and chapter of Hereford demise to Thomas Gethinge, otherwise Merbull, of Hereford , their parsonage of Ledeney and chapel of St. Brevell, for 29 years, at an annual rent of £16 6s. 8d.

Indenture made 18 Dec., 3 Elizabeth, by which the dean and chapter of Hereford, in consideration of the sum of £10, demise unto Roger Brougham their parsonage of Lydney and the chapel of St. Brevell's for 60 years, paying annually £16 6s. 8d.

AYLSHAM and FAKENHAM. Exchequer Constat extracted from the great roll of the pipe, [44 Edw. III], containing a grant of the manor of Wyghton with the hundred of Northgreneho and the manors of Aylesham and Fakenhamdam in co. Norfolk, the manor of Saham in county Cambridge, the manor of Whitgift, co. York, manor of Berton Bristol, co. Gloster, manor of Sevenhampton and Stratton, co. Wiltes, to Robert de Knolles and Constance his wife for the whole term of their lives at an annual rent of £745 7s. The acquittance is given to the prior and convent of Ely for £76 13s. 4d., being the reserved rent for a portion of the year due for the manor of Saham, co. Cambridge, committed to the said prior and convent, 26 Sept., [43 Edw. III], at a rent of £100 per annum.

ALRYNGTON, co. Gloucester. John Sonde acknowledges to have received 50s. of the abbot and convent of Oseney from their manor of Alryngton for the dower of Joan his wife. Dated 12 April, 16 (?) Richard II.

Writ of K. Henry IV to his escheator of the co. of Gloucester, concerning the election of William Wendovere, canon, as abbot of Oseney, and commanding a restitution of the temporalities in his bailiwick. Dated at Westminster, 16 March, 5 Hen. IV.

Matthew de Stratton, archdeacon of Bucks , grants to the church of St. Mary, Oseney, and to Richard the abbot and canons there, for the health of his own and parents' souls, and also for Henry, son of Robert, formerly his seneschal, and of Nichola his wife, 13 acres, 1 rood of arable land and 1 1/2 rood of meadow in the fields of Morthon, and the whole of his court with gardens and 40 buttes in a pasture to the north of his garden, which he had by the gift of William, son of sir Reginald , together with other parcels of land, &c. in Morthon, Borthon, Adinthon, Sevenhampton, Cloppelai, and Witteleia. (c. 1255-65.) [Richard, abbot 1254-67.] [Slightly mutilated.] .

STOW, co. Gloucester. Henry, son of Lewis , grants to Simon ... acres of arable land lying in the field called ... of Stow, ... paying annually to him and his heirs eight pence, and giving now 16s. 8d. (c. 1240-50.) [Mutilated.] This fragment is not a charter of Stow (as in Calendar, p. 368) nor is it an Oseney charter. It is about St. Giles, Oxford and is a St. Frideswide charter. It is to be found in Wigram, Cart. St. Frideswide, I, p. 423, ⟨no. 603⟩. [Handwritten note by Rev. H. Salter, 9 July 1907, between pp. 142-143 of the annotated copy of Turner and Coxe, Calendar.]

Robert le Bel of Stowe grants to Robert le Bel his son and heir one virgate of land in ..., which Robert de Toreny gave to him, for his homage and service, at an annual rent of one pound of cummin, and an acquittance from all regal service. Witness. Thomas, abbot of Winchcombe . (c. 1230.) [Mutilated.] This fragment is not about Stow (as in Calendar, p. 368) but about Turkden, Glouc. It is almost identical with MS. Ch. Oseney 224. [Handwritten note by Rev. H. Salter, 9 July 1907, between pp. 142-143 of the annotated copy of Turner and Coxe, Calendar.]

Oliver, bp. of Lincoln , to master John le Fleming , Josceline de Kirningston, and Walter de Wutton , canons of Lincoln, appointing them judges in all causes and actions [concerning the patronage of the church of Stowe?]. Dated 2 Kl. May, 1291, at Stowe Park. [Mutilated.] This fragment is not about the church of Stow (as in Calendar, p. 369) but "Dat' apud Parcum Stowe", i.e. Stow Park, the bishop's palace near Lincoln. [Handwritten note by Rev. H. Salter, 9 July 1907, between pp. 142-143 of the annotated copy of Turner and Coxe, Calendar.]

STOW and BIBURY, co. Glouo. A fragment of an episcopal confirmation to the abbey of Oseney of the churches of Stow and Bibury, formerly belonging to the church of St. George. Dated Sept. 14. Temp. Hen. IV or V.