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ADDERBURY, Oxon. Nicholas de Weston, merchant, grants to Adam his eldest son, one messuage and two crofts in 'Abbirbire,' and one carucate of land in the fields of the same village; paying annually to the lord of the fee 6d. for all secular service. Witness. William D'Lisle, then sheriff of Oxon , etc. (c. 1270-71.) .

Emma, wife of William de Wodeston , acknowledges that she has remitted to the abbot of Oseney and his successors for ever, all her right and claim which she had by name of dowry in the third part of a messuage, one carucate of land, 18s. 9d. rent, in Addbrbyre, of the gift of Nicholas de Weston her first husband. For this the said abbot paid to her and William her husband, £100 by instalments. (c. 1277.) .

Final concord in the king's court at Westminster on the morrow of the Ascension of our Lord, 5 Ed. I, between William, the abbot of Oseney [1277], plaintiff, and William de Wodeston and Emma his wife, deforciants, concerning a third part of one messuage and one carucate of land, and 18s. 9d. annual rent, in Adburbury, by which William and Emma quit-claim to the abbot and his successors and his church of Oseney all their right in the said land &c., by the name of dowry. For this the abbot gave 100s. sterling.

The abbot and convent of Oseney hold themselves bound to Hugh de Hynton and Matilda his wife, Ralph de Astrop and Wilelmina his wife, in nineteen marks sterling, in settlement of a dispute between them, and the said Hugh and others of the one part, and sir Richard de Lyons and Emma his wife of the other part, concerning all the tenements which they have in Abberbire, of the gift of Nicholas de Weston , for which the said Richard had impleaded the abbot and convent in the king's court. Dated at Oseney on the feast of St. Luke evang., 16 Ed. I.

Return of a jury respecting the duties of the tithing-man of the abbot of Oseney, for the lordship of St. Aniand in the village of Abburbery. Dated Monday, Inv. of St Cross, 46 [Ed. III].

Hugo de Tywe grants and quitclaims all he has in Adderbury to Nicholas de Weston: witnesses, Rad. de Dyve, Ioh. Kachelewe, Rog. de Bereford, Rob. le Butiler, Ioh. fil. Ricardi, Will. de Maidewell, Ric. fil. Nigelli, Rob. Turgis, Will. de Berton. It states that the rent was a pair of gilt spurs or sixpence. c. 1270

Emma, widow of Nicholas de Weston, quitclaims to Oseney all the tenements in Adderbury, which her late husband sold to Oseney for 225 marks, of which she received 100 marks as her dos. Witnesses, mag. Rob. Maynard, Nich. de Kingeston mayor of Oxford, Galf. de Hengsey, Ioh. Sewy, Ioh. de Sibbeford, Lucas le Naper, Will. de Withille, Will. de Pirie. c. 1271

Account roll, Eton, Haneburgh, Great Barton, Adderbury, Little Tew, Watlington, Burton, Shenston, Claydon, Stone, Ovyng, Hampton [Gay], Weston, Bybury, reeves, &c. c. 1300. (7 ms.; the first and half the second are missing.) Accounts are also rendered under the headings : magister operum, sutor, fulling mill, pittancer, chamberlain, kitchen, infirmary, garden.

Court roll. Hooknorton, Upton (with view of frankpledge), Ledwell, Adderbury, Tew (with view of frankpledge). Stow (with view of frankpledge), Sibford, Eton (with view of frankpledge), Mixbury (with view of frankpledge). 49 & 50 Ed. III. (9 ms.)

BLOXHAM. Roll indented, being the account of Simon Herdwyk , bailiff of Thomas Wykeham, knt., of moneys received and paid to the lord by him, Mich. 4 and Mich. 5 Hen. VI, in Bloxham, Abbenbury (sic) etc.

Little Tew, Great Barton, Barton Odo, Sandford, Rowsham, Dunstew, Sibford Gower, Hooknorton, and Adderbury. 15 Ed. III. (1 m.)