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NUNEHAM COURTNEY. Indenture made 20 June, 14 Charles II, by which sir John Robinson, kt. and bart., lieutenant of the Tower, in consideration of the receipt of 5s., conveys to Gilbert, bp. of London , and others, certain lands in Nuneham Courtney, for the payment of an annual sum of £200, left to the towns of Wokingham, Wallingford, Windsor, and Henley-on-Thames, by William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury , for apprenticing boys and marrying maidens.

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.⟩