MS. Ch. Oxon. 126b
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The will of Richard de Hunsyngore, clerk, rector of South Newenton, Oxfordshire ; he leaves (inter alia) to master Nicholas, son of William de Burcestre , his godson, his seld situated in the high street near the door of the house in which the said Walter lives, which he bought of John de Maydeston ; also to Robert de Hunsyngore his servant, his tenement in the parish of St. Aldate in the high street, between a tenement formerly William Spaldyng 's on the north, and a tenement of John Saucers on the south, which tenement he bought of the executors of Robert de Wormenhale . Dated at South Newenton the Thursday next after the feast of St Dunstan. 1337. Also he gives and bequeaths his tenement situated in the way called Shydzerd, Oxon, between a tenement of the prior and convent of St. Frid. on the south, and a tenement of the abbess and convent of Godstowe on the north, and also his tenement in the street of St. John which he bought of John de Croxford , to be sold, and the money employed for the celebration of masses in the church of South Newenton. Attached to this will is a mandate from Gilbert de Bruera, dean of St. Paul's , to ... de Mora, proctor of the archdeacon of Oxford, and to the dean of Oxford (in consequence of the archdeacon being in foreign parts) to grant administration. Dated at London, 5 Kl. June, 1337.
Physical Description
Form: sheetSupport: parchmentWith three seals.Seal: Seal (detached, kept separately) of Dean of Oxford. [Cast available.] (MS. Ch. Oxon. 126b*a)Seal: Indistinct. [Cast available.] (MS. Ch. Oxon. 126b*b)Seal: Seal (detached, kept separately) of City of Oxford (as MS. Ch. Oxon. 125b*) (MS. Ch. Oxon. 126b*c)History
Provenance and Acquisition
Archive of Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford
Record Sources
W. H. Turner and H. O. Coxe, Calendar of charters and rolls preserved in the Bodleian library (Oxford, 1878) [annotated copy, Bodleian Library R.Ref.741], 307-308 [Google Books]J. Gilbert Wiblin, Handlist 339e. Seals (including casts and matrices), May 1916 (unpublished handlist, Bodleian Library), p. 116Availability
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2020-10: First online publication
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