1354-01-19, Walter Westminster

Memorandum that the abbess and conyent on 1 March acknowledged the preceding deed in their full chapter at Romeseye before John de Stouford, by virtue of a writ to him which is on the files of this year. Enrolment of indenture made between Joan, abbess of Romeseye, and the convent of that place, and John de Edyndon, witnessing that the abbess and convent have granted to John a messuage, two water mills, a virgate of arable land, 53 acres of meadow and 4 acres of pasture in the town of Edyndon, co. Wilts, to wit, all those tenements which William de Sweltenham lately held of the abbess and convent in that town: they have also granted to John pasture for eight oxen feeding with the oxen of the abbess, yearly, wherever they are feeding in that manor, except the enclosure of the garden of the principal house of the manor and a plot called Houscroft in the manor, rendering 47s. 4d. yearly to the abbess and convent, with power of distraint in the said tenements if the rent should be in arrear at any of the terms of payment and if within forty days John shall not content them for the rent in arrear or shall refuse so to do, the abbess and convent may re-enter the premises, hold them in fee simple and dispose thereof at will without hindrance from John. Dated at Romeseye in their chapter house, Tuesday after SS. Processus and Martinianus, 25 Edward III.