A certain interest attaches to this deed as recording the last gift of land to the Oxford Minorites, of which evidence remains—probably the last gift ever made.
Pro Gardiano et fratribus ordinis Minorum Oxon’ de acquirendo ad elargacionem mansi.
Rex omnibus ad quos, etc. salutem. Licet de communi consilio regni nostri statutum sit, quod non liceat viris religiosis seu aliis ingredi feodum alicuius ita quod ad manum mortuam deueniat sine licencia nostra et capitalis domini de quo res illa immediate tenetur; Volentes tamen dilectis nobis in Christo Gardiano et fratribus ordinis minorum in villa Oxon’ graciam facere specialem; concessimus et licenciam dedimus pro nobis et heredibus nostris, quantum in nobis est, dilecto et fideli nostro Johanni de Grey de Retherfeld, quod ipse quandam placeam terre cum pertinenciis in villa predicta manso predictorum Gardiani et fratrum ibidem ex parte orientali contiguam, continentem in se in longitudine sex perticatas terre et in latitudine quinque perticatas terre, dare possit et assignare eisdem Gardiano et fratribus, habendam et tenendam sibi et successoribus suis ad elargacionem mansi sui predicti imperpetuum: et eisdem Gardiano et fratribus, quod ipsi placeam predictam cum pertinenciis a prefato Johanne recipere possint et tenere sibi et successoribus suis predictis ad elargacionem mansi sui predicti imperpetuum, sicut predictum est tenore presencium, similiter licenciam dedimus specialem. Nolentes quod predictus Johannes vel heredes sui, seu predicti Gardianus et fratres aut successores sui, racione statuti predicti per nos vel heredes nostros inde occasionentur in aliquo seu grauentur. Saluis tamen capitalibus dominis feodi illius seruiciis inde debitis et consuetis. In cuius, etc. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium, xix die Augusti.
APPENDIX B.
MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS.
1. Food for the Friars Minors, etc. (A. D. 1244).—2. Adam Marsh as royal nuncius (A. D. 1247).—3. For the same (A. D. 1257).—4. The Church of the Minorites used as a Sanctuary (A. D. 1284-5).—5. Royal grant of 50 marcs (A. D. 1289).—6. Decree of the General Chapter at Paris (A. D. 1292).—7. Royal grant of 50 marcs; tally on the sheriff of Oxford for half the amount (A. D. 1323); evidence of payment.—8. ‘Receptor denariorum gardiani Fratrum Minorum Oxon’ (A. D. 1341).—9. Goods and chattels of Friar John Welle, S.T.P. (A. D. 1378).—10. Expulsion of foreign Friars Minors from Oxford (A. D. 1388).—11. Friar William Woodford; confirmation of his privileges by Pope Boniface IX (A. D. 1366.).—12. Appointment of a lecturer to the Convent at Hereford (c. A. D. 1400).—13. Decree of the General Chapter at Florence (A. D. 1467).—14. Recovery of debt from a Sheriff (A. D. 1488).—15. Documents relating to the lease of a garden at the Grey Friars to Richard Leke (A. D. 1513-1514).—16. Extracts from the will of Richard Leke (A. D. 1526).—17. An ex-warden called to account (A. D. 1529).
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Food for Friars Minors, &c., A. D. 1244.