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ASCOT under WYCHWOOD. Judgment in a tithe cause between the prior and convent of St. Frideswide, and Helyas Ridel, canon of Sarum and rector of Shipton , by the priors of Dunstable and St. Alban's and the archdeacon of St. Alban's, delegated by the Pope to hear and determine the same, who make the award that the tithes of the demesne of Roger d'Oilli in Escot belong to the prior and convent of St. Frideswide, and also the tithes of hay of 10 virgates of land, saving 2s. which the said canons annually pay at Escot to the church of Shipton. Done in the year 1227, 1st year of Pope Gregory IX, the Saturday after the translation of St. Thomas the martyr, at Flamsted. .

ASCOT. Drusiana, formerly wife of Alexander de la Thurne , in her widowhood grants to Roger de Oylly and his heirs one virgate of land and the whole of a meadow which she has in the village of Escot. (c. 1210-20.) .