Register of the rectors, fellows, and other members on the foundation of Exeter College, Oxford, with a history of the College and illustrative documents / by the Rev. Charles William Boase.

Date:
1894
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Credit: Register of the rectors, fellows, and other members on the foundation of Exeter College, Oxford, with a history of the College and illustrative documents / by the Rev. Charles William Boase. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    23 1318, with an Inspeximus of 30 Oct., recites that the Abbess and Convent of Godstow grant the Rector and Scholars a tenement adjacent to the former purchase, reserving a rent of 12^*, for which they may distrain on Hart Hall and Arthur Hall. There were several persons connected with the foundation, and their title-deeds are preserved. It is worth while quoting some of them, since they help us to ascertain the sites of the Halls, and to trace the history of early Oxford families. I give those of S. Stephen s Hall in full. The first deed connected with S. Stephen’s Hall is in or about,1275 (but see other deeds in Bodleian Charters 288). By it William Crompe gave M. William de Coudray a house in S. Mildred’s parish between the house which belonged to Hugh Rufus and that which belonged to the Abbess of Godstow at a rent of two shillings to himself and two pence to S. Mildred’s, the sum paid down being 15 marks; witnesses N. de Kyngeston, mayor, Galfridus aurifaber and N. de Coleshulle bailiffs; J. de Ho, P. de Ho, Ralph le seynter, J. Culvert, W. Hastel, Simon Scotur &c. On 5 Feb. i28|, Thomas de Merston quitclaimed to M. William de Coudray for a house in S. Mildred’s, which M. Thomas de Radenore bought of Geoffrey de Merston his father, and which Thomas sold to William; and for a placea behind the house which Geoffrey sold to William; Thomas and William giving 2 marks to Thomas de Merston; witnesses H. de la Grave, Hugh Cheche, J. de Fonte of Gersindon, Ralph le plumer, J. Payn &c. In 1281-2 Geoffrey de Merston allutarius granted William de Coudray a placea of land, of breadth, within William’s walls, 6 royal ells and a thumb, and a quarter of an ell; in length the whole space between the land of M. Thomas de Radenore on the west and that of the Abbess of Godstow on the east, between the land of William on the north and Geoffrey’s land on the south, at a rent of one clove ' at Easter, William paying down 40^'; witnesses N. de Kyngeston mayor, T. de Sowy and Ralph le plumer bailiffs, H. Ow^ayn, J. Culverd, N. de Coleshulle, J. de Eu, P. de Eu, Paulinus de Eriditon &c. In 1281-2 Thomas de Sowy demised and quitclaimed to William de Coudray a rent of 2J, which Thomas received from a messuage between the land of the Abbess of Godstow and the land of Lucia la Rede, William giving Thomas 2\ marks; witnesses N. de ^ Cf. Hist. Comm. iv. 445 ; Rogers i. 62S; Magdalen Muniments 139.