<P_102>

From Willington to Antehille-Castelle a xij. miles , almost al by
chaumpayn grounde , (LELAND-E1-P2,102.2)

part by corne , (LELAND-E1-P2,102.3)

and parte by pasture , (LELAND-E1-P2,102.4)

and sum baren hethy and sandy ground . (LELAND-E1-P2,102.5)

About the castelle self and the toune of Antehille is faire wood .
(LELAND-E1-P2,102.6)

The castelle and town of Antehille with diverse fair lordshippes
$thereabout longgid to the L. Fannope , a man of great renowne in the
raigns of Henry the v. and Henry the syxte .
{COM:20_words_fromto'_to_'syxte'_interpolated} (LELAND-E1-P2,102.7)

This Lorde Fannope buildid this castelle as it is now stonding stately
on an hille , with a 4. or 5. faire towers of stone in the inner warde
, beside the basse-courte , of such spoiles as it is saide that he
wanne in Fraunce . (LELAND-E1-P2,102.8)

<P_103>

It apperith by the este wyndow in the chapelle withyn the castelle of
Anthille that he maried yn a noble blood : (LELAND-E1-P2,103.10)

as I remembre she was the Duches of Excestre ; (LELAND-E1-P2,103.11)

it may chaunce that the mariage of her was a great cause of the
sumptuus building there . (LELAND-E1-P2,103.12)

This Lorde Fannope lyith at the blake freres in London , as I have
lernid , and his wife on the right hand of hym and a childe .
(LELAND-E1-P2,103.13)

How the Lorde Gray of Ruthin cam to this castelle and landes aboute it
, I have hard these thinges folowing told for a verite .
(LELAND-E1-P2,103.14)

In the tyme of the civile war betwixt King Henry the $vi. and King
Edwarde the $iv. $there was a $battaile faught hard without the south
suburbes of Northampton .
{COM:7_words_from_'hard'_to_'Northampton'_interpolated}
(LELAND-E1-P2,103.15)

The Lorde Fannope tooke totally King Henry's parte .
(LELAND-E1-P2,103.16)

The Lorde Gray of Ruthine did the same in countenance .
(LELAND-E1-P2,103.17)

But a litle afore the feeld he practised with King Edward , other
saying that he had a title to the Lorde Fannopes landes at Antehil and
there aboute , or depraving {COM:sic} hym with false accusations so
wrought with King Edwarde , that he with al his strong band of
Walschemen felle to King Edwardes part , apon promise that if Edward
wan the feelde he shaul have Antehil and such landes as Fannope had
there . (LELAND-E1-P2,103.18)

Edwarde wan the feelde , (LELAND-E1-P2,103.19)

and Gray opteinid Antehille <font> cum pertinentiis </font> :
(LELAND-E1-P2,103.20)

and stil encreasing in favor with King Edwarde was at the laste made by
hym Erle of Kente . (LELAND-E1-P2,103.21)

But wither the Lord Fannope were slayn at $this feelde $or no I am not
sure . (LELAND-E1-P2,103.22)

The market town of $Antehill is praty and welle $favoridly buildyd ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,103.23)

and is a quarter of a mile
{COM:8_words_from_'buildyd'_to_'mile'_interpolated} distant from the
castelle : (LELAND-E1-P2,103.24)

part of it standith on $a hille , but the most and the best parte in a
valley . (LELAND-E1-P2,103.25)

There rennith a broket , as I remember , by the est part of the toune .
(LELAND-E1-P2,103.26)

From Antehill to Dunestaple a x. miles , or more .
(LELAND-E1-P2,103.27)

First I passid partely by wooddy ground and enclosures , but after
moste parte by champaine grounde , (LELAND-E1-P2,103.28)

and aboute a 2. miles from Dunestaple by est I toke thorough a fair
uplandisch <P_104> toune caullid {COM:lacuna} and thens to Mergate al
by chaumpaine , but for the moste parte fertile of corne , a vj. miles
. (LELAND-E1-P2,104.29)

Mergate was a nunnery of late tyme , (LELAND-E1-P2,104.30)

it standith on an hil in a faire woode hard by Watheling-Streate on the
est side of it . (LELAND-E1-P2,104.31)

Humfrey Boucher , base sunne to the late Lorde Berners , did much coste
in translating of the priorie into a maner place :
(LELAND-E1-P2,104.32)

but he left it nothing endid . (LELAND-E1-P2,104.33)

Ther is a litle south of the priorie a long thorough fare on
Watheling-Streate meately welle buildid for low housing .
(LELAND-E1-P2,104.34)

About the midle of this town I passid half a mile by hilly ground as in
the beginning of Chilterne , (LELAND-E1-P2,104.35)

and ther I saw in a praty wood side S. Leonardes on the lifte hand ,
scant half a mile of toward north weste . Wher of late tyme was a
priorie of nunnes . (LELAND-E1-P2,104.36)

Master Page the knight hath it now in exchaunge for landes of his in
Sutherey about the quarters of Hampton-Courte . (LELAND-E1-P2,104.37)

Master Page hath translatid the house , (LELAND-E1-P2,104.38)

and now much lyith there . (LELAND-E1-P2,104.39)

So forthe by Chiltern-hilles and woddes a 4. miles and a half to
$Gaddesden wher the Lorde of Darby hath a praty maner place of tymbre .
(LELAND-E1-P2,104.40)

And or I cam to this village I rode over a litle brooke that cummith
not very far of out of $Chilterne-hilles and $resortyth to Langeley
$where $the $friars were dwelling . (LELAND-E1-P2,104.41)

Thens by Chiltern-hilles and baren , wooddy , and ferne ground for the
moste parte , the soile waxing chalky and flinty , as al Chiltern ys ,
a 3. $miles to Barkhamstede . Wher is an old large castelle in a roote
of an hille stonding sum what low , and environid with a mote , to the
which , as I coulde perceyve , part of the water of the ryver there
hard by doth resorte . (LELAND-E1-P2,104.42)

I markid dyverse towers in the midle warde of the castelle , and the
dungeon hille . (LELAND-E1-P2,104.43)

But to my sighte it is much in ruine . (LELAND-E1-P2,104.44)

The house of Bonehomes , caullid Asscheruge , of the fundation of
Edmunde , Erle of Cornewale , and owner of Berckhamstede-Castel , is
about a mile of , (LELAND-E1-P2,104.45)

and there the king <P_105> lodgid . (LELAND-E1-P2,105.46)

After that I had veuyd the castel , I passid over the ryver wher as is
a bridge of wood . (LELAND-E1-P2,105.47)

This ryver cummith by northe-west from Penley , a place yn Chiltern a
3. miles of , (LELAND-E1-P2,105.48)

and so renning by the est ende of Barkhamstede toune goith doun a xij.
miles southwarde to the more water about the quarters of
Richemannesworthe . (LELAND-E1-P2,105.49)

Berkhamstede is one of the best markette townes in Hertfordeshire ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,105.50)

and hath a longe streate metely welle buildid from the north to the
south : and another , but sumwhat lesser , from the west to the est ,
where the ryver rennith . (LELAND-E1-P2,105.51)

The chirch is in the midle of the town . (LELAND-E1-P2,105.52)

In the botom of the ryver of eche side be very faire medowes .
(LELAND-E1-P2,105.53)

Thens I passid by hilly , woddy , and much baren ground to Cheynes a v.
miles of . (LELAND-E1-P2,105.54)

And or I cam very nere Cheneys I passid over a little brooke , and even
in the valley by Cheineys over another , (LELAND-E1-P2,105.55)

and $they $resorte aboute $Richemansworth {COM:Rickmansworth} to the
moore $water . (LELAND-E1-P2,105.56)

The olde house of the Cheyneis is so translatid by my Lorde Russel ,
that hath that house on the right of his wife , that litle or nothing
of it yn a maner remaynith ontranslatid : (LELAND-E1-P2,105.57)

and a great deale of the house is even newly set up made of brike and
timber : (LELAND-E1-P2,105.58)

and fair logginges be new erectid in the gardein .
(LELAND-E1-P2,105.59)

The house is within diverse places richely paintid with antique workes
of white and blak . (LELAND-E1-P2,105.60)

And there be about the house 2. parkes , as I remembre .
(LELAND-E1-P2,105.61)

The maner place stondeth at the west ende of the paroche chirche .
(LELAND-E1-P2,105.62)

In the paroche on the northe side of it , as in a chapelle , be 2.
tumbes of the Chaynes $lordes of the manor ther , and $the smaul
$village bering their name . (LELAND-E1-P2,105.63)

$From Cheyneis I passed much $good pasture and corne ground
(LELAND-E1-P2,105.64)

{COM:blank_in_leland}

a pratie uplandisch town in a botom v. miles of . (LELAND-E1-P2,105.66)

And thens a v. miles stil for the most parte on a mory <P_106> ground
like Hundeslaue hethe , to the which level by likelihood it streachith
; (LELAND-E1-P2,106.67)

and thens by sum enclosid and woddy grounde a 3. miles to Windelesore .
(LELAND-E1-P2,106.68)

From Windelesore by a 3. mile most be wood and enclosid pastures ,
leving Cheortesey a mile of on lifte hand . Where is a goodly bridg of
timbre over the Tamise newly repaired . (LELAND-E1-P2,106.69)

And thens a 2. miles and more in faire open and levelle medow ground
wher I saw over the Tamise , Ankerwike , of late tyme a priorie of
nunnes , (LELAND-E1-P2,106.70)

and aboute an half mile lower I passid over the Tamise by Stanes-bridge
. (LELAND-E1-P2,106.71)

And thens most by $champaine and corne ground {COM:lacuna} pasture to
$Hampton Courte 6. miles . (LELAND-E1-P2,106.72)

And about halfe a myle a this syd it is Hampton village on the Thamise
syde . {COM:19_words_from_'Courte'_to_'syde'_interpolated}
(LELAND-E1-P2,106.73)

<P_107>

<heading:edcomment:PART_II>

<heading>

<font> Quinta die Maii Anno D. </font> 1542 .

</heading>

From London to New Brentford 8. miles . (LELAND-E1-P2,107.79)

There is a bridge apon Brent ryveret of 3. arches , and an hospital
buildid with brike on the farther ende of it . (LELAND-E1-P2,107.80)

From Brentford to Hundeslawe 2. miles . (LELAND-E1-P2,107.81)

There was in the west ende of the toune an house of freres of the ordre
of the $Title of the Trinite . (LELAND-E1-P2,107.82)

There rennith a lande water thorough the hethe of Hundeslaw as a drene
to the hole hethe , that is of a great cumpace , (LELAND-E1-P2,107.83)

and I passid by a bridge of tymbre over it . (LELAND-E1-P2,107.84)

From Hundeslaw to Longeforde a v. miles . (LELAND-E1-P2,107.85)

A litle beyond this village is a bridge of tymbre at the which the
mille water of Langford breking out above yn the medowes doth mete with
one of the 2. greate principale armes that brekith out of Colne brooke
. (LELAND-E1-P2,107.86)

This arme , as one told me , brekith out of Colne or ever it cum by the
ende of Uxbridge , (LELAND-E1-P2,107.87)

and metith not very far beneth Langford bridge with the principal
streme of Colne . (LELAND-E1-P2,107.88)

A litle beyond Langford bridge is a bridge of wood , under the which
the principal streame of Colne ryver rennith , (LELAND-E1-P2,107.89)

and thens more then a mile goith into Tamise by Stanes chirch a litle
above Stanes bridg apon the Tamise . (LELAND-E1-P2,107.90)

Coleham the Erle of Darby's house stondith on the hither side of this
streame about a mile above the bridge . (LELAND-E1-P2,107.91)

From this bridge to Colebrok bridge of tymbre about a mile .
(LELAND-E1-P2,107.92)

Al the ground from a mile or more a this side Langford to <P_108>
Colebrok bridge is al low pasture ground , and at rages of rayne by
rising of the ryver muche overflowen . (LELAND-E1-P2,108.93)

Under Colebrooke bridge of tymbre rennith the secund of the 2.
principale armes of Cole ryver , (LELAND-E1-P2,108.94)

and this to my estimation is the lesser of the 2 .
(LELAND-E1-P2,108.95)

It breketh owt of the principale streame a 2. miles above Colebroke
toun yn a mooreisch grounde about a mile lower then Uxbridge toun .
(LELAND-E1-P2,108.96)

Uxbridge 3. miles from Colebrook toune . (LELAND-E1-P2,108.97)

This arme rennith by it self about a mile and a half beneth Colebrook
toun into the Tamise a litle above Ancrewike , wher was a priory of
nunnes . (LELAND-E1-P2,108.98)

Colebrook toun is a 2. miles from Stanes . (LELAND-E1-P2,108.99)

The toune of Colebrok is set on eche side of the ryver of Cole ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,108.100)

but the far greatter part of it is on the west side of the ryver :
(LELAND-E1-P2,108.101)

and there is a chapelle of brike made of late dayes .
(LELAND-E1-P2,108.102)

The paroche chirch is a mile of . (LELAND-E1-P2,108.103)

From Colne brooke to a place wher I passid over Burne ryveret a 4. or
5. miles . This water risith out of morisch spring on the lifte hond as
I roode from Stok wher the Erle of Huntendun lyith :
(LELAND-E1-P2,108.104)

and , as I gesse , goith by Burneham and about Eiton College toward the
Tamise . (LELAND-E1-P2,108.105)

A 2. or 3. miles beyond the passage over Burne I cam to Maidenhed
bridge of tymbre apon the Tamise . (LELAND-E1-P2,108.106)

A litle above the bridge <font> ripa citeriori Tamesis </font> I saw a
cliffy ground as hanging over the Tamise and sum busschis groinge on it
. (LELAND-E1-P2,108.107)

I conjectid that ther had beene sum site of an auncient building .
(LELAND-E1-P2,108.108)

There is great warfeage of timbre and fier wood on the west ende of the
bridge , (LELAND-E1-P2,108.109)

and this wood cummith out of Barkshir , and the great woddis of the
forest of Windelesore , and the great Frithe . (LELAND-E1-P2,108.110)

Heere mark that as much grounde as lyith bytwixt the arme of Colne ,
that goith thoroug Colebroke toun , and the bridge of Maidenhed is yn
Bukkinghamshir ; (LELAND-E1-P2,108.111)

beyond is Barkeshire . (LELAND-E1-P2,108.112)

The toun of Maidenhed stondith a praty distance from the Tamise side ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,108.113)

and is meately welle buildid . (LELAND-E1-P2,108.114)

<P_109>

The south side of the toune is yn the paroche of Bray .
(LELAND-E1-P2,109.116)

The north side is in the paroch of $Cookham . (LELAND-E1-P2,109.117)

From Maidenhedde toun a 2. miles by narow wooddy way to the Frithe .
(LELAND-E1-P2,109.118)

And so thorough the Frithe 3. miles and more . (LELAND-E1-P2,109.119)

Then to $Twiford a praty tounelet a 2. miles . (LELAND-E1-P2,109.120)

At the west ende of this tounlet rennith Loden a praty ryver ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,109.121)

and so brekith out in armes that therby I passid over 4. bridgis .
(LELAND-E1-P2,109.122)

Thens a mile and an half to Sunning , an uplandisch toune , but sette
on a fair and commodius grounde . (LELAND-E1-P2,109.123)

The Tamise rennith under it in a plesant vale . (LELAND-E1-P2,109.124)

I markid no very great antiquite in the chirch ; (LELAND-E1-P2,109.125)

it is impropriate onto the decanerie of Saresbyri .
(LELAND-E1-P2,109.126)

In the presbyteri is one Fitton an esquier buried .
(LELAND-E1-P2,109.127)

In the south isle be 2. or 3. Vouesses buried , kinswomen to Bisshop of
Saresbyri . (LELAND-E1-P2,109.128)

In the north isle be 2. of the {COM:blank_in_text}
(LELAND-E1-P2,109.129)

There is an old chapelle at the est end of the chirch of S. Sarik ,
whither of late tyme resortid in pilgrimage many folkes for the desease
of madnes . (LELAND-E1-P2,109.130)

The Bisshop of Saresbyri hath had at Sunning afore the Conquest an
auncient maner place , (LELAND-E1-P2,109.131)

and hath be {COM:sic} lordes there . (LELAND-E1-P2,109.132)

And yet remainith a fair olde house there of stone , even by the Tamise
ripe , longging to the Bisshop of Saresbyri : (LELAND-E1-P2,109.133)

and therby is a fair parke . (LELAND-E1-P2,109.134)

This place is in Barkeshir 3. miles above Henley .
(LELAND-E1-P2,109.135)

From Sunning to Reading 2. miles . (LELAND-E1-P2,109.136)

There is a park cumming into Reading toun longging to the late
monasterie there . (LELAND-E1-P2,109.137)

There is no maner of token that ever the toun of Reading was waullid ;
(LELAND-E1-P2,109.138)

yet it is a very auncient toun , and at this tyme the best toun of al
Barkshire . (LELAND-E1-P2,109.139)

There was a castelle in the Saxons tyme in this towne :
(LELAND-E1-P2,109.140)

and the name of Castelle-Streat yet remaynithe , lying from est to west
to passe to Newbyri : (LELAND-E1-P2,109.141)

but I could not perceive or clerely lerne wher it stoode .
(LELAND-E1-P2,109.142)

But <P_110> by al lykelihod at the west-ende of the Castelle-Streat :
(LELAND-E1-P2,110.143)

and , as sum think , about the place of execution .
(LELAND-E1-P2,110.144)

It is very likely that a peace of the abbay was buildid of the ruines
of it . (LELAND-E1-P2,110.145)

Peraventure it stoode wher thabbay was . (LELAND-E1-P2,110.146)

S. Edwarde the Martyr's mother-yn-law for penaunce buildid , as I have
redde , a monasterie of nunnes yn Reading . (LELAND-E1-P2,110.147)

There is a constant fame that this nunnery was wher S. Maryes , a
paroche chirch is now yn Reading . (LELAND-E1-P2,110.148)

King Henry the first making an abbay at Reading of blak monkes
suppressid this house , as I hard , giving the landes thereof to his
abbay . (LELAND-E1-P2,110.149)

But for more certente know whither the old nunnery stoode not yn the
place wher the abbay of Reading stondith ? And whither S. Maries were
not of a newer foundation ? (LELAND-E1-P2,110.150)

On the north side of the Castelle-Streat was a late a fair house of
Gray Freres . (LELAND-E1-P2,110.151)

In the toune be 3. paroche chirchis . S. Giles a this side Kenet ryver
: Sainct Maries , and S. Laurence beyond Kenet . (LELAND-E1-P2,110.152)

S. Maries is as the principal paroche of the toun for auncientnes :
(LELAND-E1-P2,110.153)

and standith in the hart of it . (LELAND-E1-P2,110.154)

S. Laurence stondith by west hard by cumming yn at the principal gate
of thabbay . (LELAND-E1-P2,110.155)

West north west of S. Laurence chirch was an almose house of poore
sisters by al lykelihod of the foundation of sum abbate of Reading :
(LELAND-E1-P2,110.156)

and remaynid ontyl such tyme one Thorne Abbate of Reading suppressid it
in King Henry the vij. dayes , and gave the landes of it onto the use
of the almoner of his abbay . (LELAND-E1-P2,110.157)

But Henry the vij. cumming to Reading , and asking what old house that
was , thabbate told hym , (LELAND-E1-P2,110.158)

and then the king wyllid hym to convert the house self and the landes
<font> in pios usus . </font> Wherapon thabbate desirid that it might
be made a grammar-schole , (LELAND-E1-P2,110.159)

and so it was . (LELAND-E1-P2,110.160)

One Wylliam Dene , a riche man and servant in thabbay of Reading , gave
markes in mony toward the avauncement of this schole : as it apperith
by the epitaphie on his grave in the abbay chirch of Reading .
(LELAND-E1-P2,110.161)

The ryver of Kenet cummith thorough the midle of Reading toun ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,110.162)

but devidid principally into 2. partes , wherof the principal streame
cummith thorough a great wood bridge in the south side of the toune .
(LELAND-E1-P2,110.163)

<P_111>

The arme that breketh out of Kenet is caullid communely about the
quarters of the toune the Halowid brooke , (LELAND-E1-P2,111.165)

and brekith out of the principal streame of Kenet up above the toune by
west south west aboute the Bere , wher thabbat of Reading had a fair
manor place of bryke , (LELAND-E1-P2,111.166)

and so cumming doune by medowes ynto Reading toune passith thorough a
peace of thabbay clensing the filth of it , (LELAND-E1-P2,111.167)

and a litle lower joinith againe with the great streame :
(LELAND-E1-P2,111.168)

and a litle lower Kenet hole streame goith into Tamise ryver . So that
Tamise river cummith within half a mile by est north est of Reading .
(LELAND-E1-P2,111.169)

In the vale of the toune of Reading , wher the 2. armes of Kenet renne
nere togither , I markid diverse armelettes breking out of the 2.
streames and making mediamnes , over the which be dyverse bridges of
wood . (LELAND-E1-P2,111.170)

And these waters be very commodius for diers , welle occupied there ;
(LELAND-E1-P2,111.171)

for the toune chiefly stondith by clothyng . (LELAND-E1-P2,111.172)

From Reading to Causeiham , shortly caullid Causham , aboute half a
mile , wher is a great mayne bridge of tymbre over the Tamise , wher I
markid that it restid most apon fundation of tymbre , and yn sum places
of stone . (LELAND-E1-P2,111.173)

Toward the north end of this bridge stondith a fair old chapelle of
stone on the right hond , pilid in the fundation for the rage of the
streame of the Tamise . (LELAND-E1-P2,111.174)

Ther is no bridge on the Tamise upward betwixt this and Walingford ,
distant about a miles of . (LELAND-E1-P2,111.175)

And byneth this Causham bridge to Henley five miles , and a half lower
is first Sunning bridge of tymbre , and Grat-Marlaw-bridge .
(LELAND-E1-P2,111.176)

Bisham Priorie in Barkshir on the Tamise a 3. miles above Maidenhed .
(LELAND-E1-P2,111.177)

Hurley apon the Tamise , a celle to Westminstre , a mile above Bisham .
(LELAND-E1-P2,111.178)

Litle-Marlaw , wher the priorie of nunnes was , a 2. miles above
Maidenhed , stonding in Bukinghamshir . (LELAND-E1-P2,111.179)

Great-Marlaw , wher the <font> bridge </font>
{COM:'bridge'_interpolated_by_Burton} of timbre is over the Tamise ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,111.180)

a mile above it . Medmenham , a celle to Woburn in Bedfordshir , a mile
above Bissham as the Tamise goith in Bukinghamshir .
(LELAND-E1-P2,111.181)

<P_112>

Beyond Causham bridge is Causham villag in Oxfordshir .
(LELAND-E1-P2,112.183)

Thens I rode a v. miles or more al by great wooddes . And thens by
chaumpaine hilly ground a 4. miles to Ewelm , an uplandisch village .
(LELAND-E1-P2,112.184)

Ewelme was the inheritance of the Chaucers . (LELAND-E1-P2,112.185)

Thomas Chaucer the last heire male owner of it is buried yn an high
marble tumbe in a fair chapelle in the paroch chirch of Ewelm , on the
southside of the quier with this epitaphie : <font> Hic jacet Thomas
Chaucer armiger , quondam dominus istius villae , & - Patronus istius
ecclesiae : qui obiit </font> 18. <font> die mensis Novembr: anno D.
</font> 1434. <font> Et Matildis uxor ejus , quae obiit </font> 28.
<font> die mensis Aprilis Anno D. </font> 1436 . (LELAND-E1-P2,112.186)

Sum say , that this Chaucer was a marchant man , and bout a li. landes
by the yere , and that wollesakkes be yn Ewelm in token of marchaundise
. (LELAND-E1-P2,112.187)

And menne say likewise , that he mindid the fundation of the hospitale
of Ewelme , and also the hospitale by Duningtoun-castelle .
(LELAND-E1-P2,112.188)

But William Duke of $Southfolk did build them booth , eche pore man
ther having xiiij. d. by the weeke . (LELAND-E1-P2,112.189)

Alice , doughter and heire to Thomas Chaucer and Matilde , tooke to
husband William de la Pole Duke of Southfolk : the which for love of
her and the commodite of her landes fell much to dwelle yn Oxfordshir
and Barkshir wher his wifes landes lay . (LELAND-E1-P2,112.190)

This William translatid and encreasid the manor place of Ewelme .
(LELAND-E1-P2,112.191)

I think that Ewelme tooke name of a great poole afore the maner place
and elmes grouing about it . (LELAND-E1-P2,112.192)

Ewelme paroche chirch a cumly and new peace of work stonding on an
hille was lately made by William Duke of Southfolk and Alice his wife .
(LELAND-E1-P2,112.193)

William was slayn , (LELAND-E1-P2,112.194)

and Alice supervivid , (LELAND-E1-P2,112.195)

and after was byried yn the paroche chirch of Ewelme on the south side
of the high altare in a riche tumbe of alabastre , with an image in the
habite of a woves crounid lying over it , and having this epitaphie on
it : <font> Orate pro anima Serenissimae Principissae Aliciae Ducissae
Suffolchiae , hujus ecclesiae patronae , & primae fundatricis hujus
<P_113> elemosynariae . quae obiit </font> <font> die mensis Maij ,
anno Di. </font> 1475. <font> litera Dominicali A. </font>
(LELAND-E1-P2,113.196)

The pratie hospitale of $xiij poore men is hard joynid to the west ende
of Ewelm paroche chirch : (LELAND-E1-P2,113.197)

and much after the building of the vicars houses at Windesore yn a
circle . (LELAND-E1-P2,113.198)

In the midle of the area of the hospitale is a very fair welle .
(LELAND-E1-P2,113.199)

The master or provost of the almose house hath ther a praty lodging .
(LELAND-E1-P2,113.200)

every poore man hath 14d. a weke . (LELAND-E1-P2,113.201)

I redde these thinges folowing in a table in Ewelm chirch :
(LELAND-E1-P2,113.202)

Pray for the soules of John Duk of Southfolk , and Elizabeth his wife .
(LELAND-E1-P2,113.203)

This John was sun and heire to William and Alice .
(LELAND-E1-P2,113.204)

John de la Pole Duk of Southfolk had by Elizabeth <font> John </font>
Erle of Lincoln , Edmund after Duk of Southefolk , Richard , William :
and {COM:blank_in_leland} that was at {COM:sic} scholar yn Gunvile-Haul
in Cambridge , and lyith buried at Baberham . (LELAND-E1-P2,113.205)

The maner place of Ewelme is in the valley of the village :
(LELAND-E1-P2,113.206)

the base court of it is fair , (LELAND-E1-P2,113.207)

and is buildid of brike and tymbre . (LELAND-E1-P2,113.208)

The inner part of the house is sette with in a fair mote ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,113.209)

and is buildid richely of brike and stone . (LELAND-E1-P2,113.210)

The haul of it is fair (LELAND-E1-P2,113.211)

and hath great barres of iren overthuart it instede of crosse beames .
(LELAND-E1-P2,113.212)

The parler by is exceding fair and lightsum : (LELAND-E1-P2,113.213)

and so be al the lodginges there . (LELAND-E1-P2,113.214)

The commune saying is that Duk John made about the beginning of King
Henry the vij. tymes most of the goodly buildinges withyn the mote .
(LELAND-E1-P2,113.215)

There is a right fair parke by the manor place . (LELAND-E1-P2,113.216)

From Ewelm to Hasely a v. miles by chaumpaine ground sumwhat plentiful
of corne , but most layid to pasturage . (LELAND-E1-P2,113.217)

Haseley is thus dividid into Grete-Haseley , Litle Haseley , Lecheford
and Ricote . (LELAND-E1-P2,113.218)

Great Haseley was of aunciente tyme a lordship longging by many
descentes to the Pyperdes , whos maner place was <P_114> there wher now
is the ferme place by the chirch longging to Windesor college .
(LELAND-E1-P2,114.219)

These Piperdes were men of fair possessions , (LELAND-E1-P2,114.220)

and the name of them as in the principal maner florishid onto Edward
the thirde dayes , about the which tyme Piperdes maner place and the
patronage of the benifice of Haseley was gyven to the college of
Windesore . (LELAND-E1-P2,114.221)

The armes of Piperd apere yn the est window of the fair chauncelle of
Haseley chirch . (LELAND-E1-P2,114.222)

Litle Haseley , wher Master Baretine hath a right fair mansion place ,
and marvelus fair walkes <font> topiarii operis </font> , and orchardes
, and pooles , holdith , as I lernid , of the maner of Piperdes by
knight service . (LELAND-E1-P2,114.223)

Lacheforde about the beginning of Edward the $thirde s {TEXT:thirdes}
tyme was parte of the Piperdes landes . (LELAND-E1-P2,114.224)

Then it chauncid for a younger sun of Piperdes of Haseley to do so
valiauntly in batelle agayn the Scottes that he was made knight :
(LELAND-E1-P2,114.225)

and having no lande , bycause that his elder brother was heire ,
desirid to have sum smaul portion of land ; wherapon his father gave
hym Lacheford to hold by knight service of the maner of Piperdes in
Great Haseley . (LELAND-E1-P2,114.226)

The stook of this yong Piperd knight remaynid in Lacheford onto yeres
ago : when the last of these Piperdes lefte a doughter and heire , that
was maried to one Lenthaul , a gentilman of Herefordshir , whos sunne
now dwellith in Lacheforde . (LELAND-E1-P2,114.227)

Ricote longid to one Fulco de Ricote . (LELAND-E1-P2,114.228)

After it cam to one Quatermains . (LELAND-E1-P2,114.229)

The house of the Quatermains in Oxfordshir hath beene famose and of
right fair possessions . (LELAND-E1-P2,114.230)

Their chief house was at Weston by Ricote , wher Mr. Clerk now dwellith
. (LELAND-E1-P2,114.231)

<P_115>

And Shirburne withyn a mile of Wathelington market , wher is a strong
pile or castelet , longid to Quatremains : sins Fowler : and by
exchaunge now to Chaumbrelein of Oxfordshir . (LELAND-E1-P2,115.233)

About King Henry the vj. dayes dyvers brethren dyed of the Quatremains
one after another , (LELAND-E1-P2,115.234)

and by a great onlykelihod al the landes descendid to one Richard , the
yonggest of the brethern , that was a marchant of London , and after
custumer there . (LELAND-E1-P2,115.235)

This Richard had a servant caullid Thomas Fowler , his clerk , a toward
felaw that after was chauncelar of the duchy of Lancastre .
(LELAND-E1-P2,115.236)

Richard Quatremains bare great favor to this Thomas .
(LELAND-E1-P2,115.237)

Richard was god-father to Thomas sunne , (LELAND-E1-P2,115.238)

and namid hym Richard Quatermains Fowler . (LELAND-E1-P2,115.239)

Richard Quatermains lay at Ricote : (LELAND-E1-P2,115.240)

and caussid Thomas Fowler to ly at Westun . (LELAND-E1-P2,115.241)

Richard Quatermains made Richard , Thomas Fowler sunne , heir of most
part of his landes , bycause he had no children .
(LELAND-E1-P2,115.242)

Richard Quatermains godfather to Richard Fowler made a right goodly
large chapelle of ease hard without the manor place of Ricote ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,115.243)

and foundid ther 2. chauntre prestes to sing perpetually for his soule
, enduing the cantuaries with good landes : (LELAND-E1-P2,115.244)

and made a fair house for the prestes therby . (LELAND-E1-P2,115.245)

This fundation was begon in Henry the 6. dayes : (LELAND-E1-P2,115.246)

and endid yn Edward the 4. tyme . (LELAND-E1-P2,115.247)

This Richard foundid also a cantuarie in Tame paroche chirche a 2.
miles from Ricote , wher he in a chapelle is buried undre a marble
stone . (LELAND-E1-P2,115.248)

This Richard foundid ther also an hospitale by Tame chirche endowing it
by landes . (LELAND-E1-P2,115.249)

Richard Fowler heir to Quatremains was a very onthrift ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,115.250)

and sold al his landes leving his children ful smaul lyvinges .
(LELAND-E1-P2,115.251)

Syr John Heron , treasorer of the chaumbre to Henry the <P_116> vij.
and the viij. boute the reversion of the lordship of Ricote ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,116.252)

and Giles his sunne possessid it a while . (LELAND-E1-P2,116.253)

Giles Heron wise in wordes , but folisch yn deades , as Syr Richard
Fowler was , sold Ricote to John Willyams now knighte .
(LELAND-E1-P2,116.254)

From Haseley to Miltoun village half a mile . (LELAND-E1-P2,116.255)

At this place , as I hard say , was many yeres syns a priorie of monkes
: a selle , as one told me , to Abbingdon . (LELAND-E1-P2,116.256)

The house of the priorie was by likelihod wher the farmer's house is
now hard by the chirch yard . (LELAND-E1-P2,116.257)

For ther appere fundations of great buildinges . (LELAND-E1-P2,116.258)

Sum say that Mounseir de Louches house was wher the farmer's house is .
(LELAND-E1-P2,116.259)

In the chirch of Miltun is an highe tumbe of fre stone with the image
of a knight and a lady , with an epitaphie in Frenche , declaring that
Richard de Louches chivalier and Helene his wife ly buried there .
(LELAND-E1-P2,116.260)

The voice ther goith that Louche had the priorie land gyven hym .
(LELAND-E1-P2,116.261)

Louches landes cam to heires generales . (LELAND-E1-P2,116.262)

Of later tymes Davers had this lordship of one {COM:lacuna} .
(LELAND-E1-P2,116.263)

Syr Regnald Bray boute it of Davers . (LELAND-E1-P2,116.264)

The late Lord Bray sold it to Dormer Mair of London .
(LELAND-E1-P2,116.265)

Ther is a prebend land in Miltun longging to Lincoln .
(LELAND-E1-P2,116.266)

The Bisshop of Lincoln is patrone of the chirch .
(LELAND-E1-P2,116.267)

There joynith onto Great-Miltun , Litle-Miltoun ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,116.268)

and there is a chapelle of ease dedicate to S. James .
(LELAND-E1-P2,116.269)

From Haseley to Chisilhampton <paren> vulgo Chisiltun </paren> by
plaine ground fruteful of corne and grasse , but baren of wood as al
that angle of Oxfordshir is , 3. miles . (LELAND-E1-P2,116.270)

Here is passid over 3. litle bridges of wood , wher under wer plaschsy
pittes of water of the overflowing of Tame ryver ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,116.271)

and then straite I rode over a great bridge under the which the hole
streame of Tame rennith . (LELAND-E1-P2,116.272)

Ther were a 5. great pillers of stone , apon the which was layid a
timbre bridge . (LELAND-E1-P2,116.273)

Thens to Drayton village , longging a late to Dorchestre Abbay .
(LELAND-E1-P2,116.274)

Thens a mile to Dorchester . (LELAND-E1-P2,116.275)

<P_117>

In the toun of Dorchestre I markid these notable thinges .
(LELAND-E1-P2,117.277)

The abbay of chanons , wher afore the Conquest was a bisshopes sete .
(LELAND-E1-P2,117.278)

Remigius translatid it to Lincoln . (LELAND-E1-P2,117.279)

Alexander Bisshop of Lincoln erected there an abbay of blak chanons .
(LELAND-E1-P2,117.280)

Yet the chirch berith the name of the prebend chirch .
(LELAND-E1-P2,117.281)

There was buried , as it is said , the bodie of S. Birine bisshop there
. (LELAND-E1-P2,117.282)

And there yet remainith the image of free stone that lay on the tumbe
of Bisshop Aeschwine , as apperith by the inscription .
(LELAND-E1-P2,117.283)

There be buried in the quier beside divers abbates a knight on the
south side with an image crosse leggid , whos name is there oute of
remembrance . (LELAND-E1-P2,117.284)

There lyith at the feete of hym one Stoner sumtyme a juge <paren> as it
apperith by his habite </paren> <font> in the raigne of K. E. </font>
3. {COM:7_words_from_'in'_to_'3'_interpolated} (LELAND-E1-P2,117.285)

There lyith a knight on the north side of the quier , a knight whom the
late abbate tooke to be one of the Segraves , (LELAND-E1-P2,117.286)

the image was of alabastre . (LELAND-E1-P2,117.287)

But after the abbate told me that he hard of late one say that there
was one Holcum a knight buried . (LELAND-E1-P2,117.288)

In the body of the chauncelle afore the quier doore lay a gentilman
caullid Ways . (LELAND-E1-P2,117.289)

Ther ly in south isle of the quier 3. of the Draitons , gentilmen , one
hard by another , under plaine marble stones . (LELAND-E1-P2,117.290)

Mr. Barentine hath part of these Draitons landes .
(LELAND-E1-P2,117.291)

$Ther lyith at the hed of thes Draitons one Gilbert Segrave a gentilman
, under a flat marble . (LELAND-E1-P2,117.292)

The body of the abbay chirch servid a late for the paroche chirch .
(LELAND-E1-P2,117.293)

Syns the suppression one {COM:lacuna} a great riche man , dwelling in
the toun of Dorchestre , bought the est part of the chirch for poundes
, (LELAND-E1-P2,117.294)

and gave it to augment the paroch chirch . (LELAND-E1-P2,117.295)

The toun of Dorchestre was sore defacid by the Danes .
(LELAND-E1-P2,117.296)

Of old tyme it was much larger in building then it is now toward the
south and the Tamise side . (LELAND-E1-P2,117.297)

There was a paroche chirch a litle by south from the abbay chirch . And
another paroch chirch more south above it . (LELAND-E1-P2,117.298)

There was the 3. paroch chirch by south weste . (LELAND-E1-P2,117.299)

<P_118>

In the closis and feeldes that lye southly on the toun that now
standith be founde <font> numismata Romanorum </font> of gold , silver
, and brasse . (LELAND-E1-P2,118.301)

The bisshop's palace , as is saide ther , was at the toune's end by
north west , wher $yet {COM:leland_has_'it',_stow_has_'yet'} appere
fundations of old buildinges : (LELAND-E1-P2,118.302)

and there as yet be kept the courtes . (LELAND-E1-P2,118.303)

The ryver of Tame cummith first by the est ende of the toune : and then
by the south side passing thoroug a very faire bridge of stone a litle
witoute the toune . (LELAND-E1-P2,118.304)

Cumming from Wallingford to Dorchester the toun standith <font> ulter.
ripa Tamae . </font> (LELAND-E1-P2,118.305)

The bridg is of a good lenghth : (LELAND-E1-P2,118.306)

and a great stone causey is made to cum welle onto it .
(LELAND-E1-P2,118.307)

There be 5. principale arches in the bridge , and in the causey joining
to the south ende of it . (LELAND-E1-P2,118.308)

Tame and Ise metith aboute half a mile beneth Dorchestre bridg in the
medowis . (LELAND-E1-P2,118.309)

From Dorchester to the fery over the Tamise about a mile .
(LELAND-E1-P2,118.310)

Here the hither ripe by north is low and medow ground .
(LELAND-E1-P2,118.311)

The south ripe ys high al alonge like the long bak of an hille .
(LELAND-E1-P2,118.312)

From the fery to Walingford a mile by marvelus fair champain and
fruteful ground of corne . (LELAND-E1-P2,118.313)

The toun of Walingeforde hath beene a very notable thing and welle
waullid . (LELAND-E1-P2,118.314)

The diche of the toun and the crest wheron the waulles stoode be yet
manifestely perceyvid , (LELAND-E1-P2,118.315)

and begin from the castelle going in cumpace a good mile and more ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,118.316)

and so cummith to Walingford bridg a large thing of stone over the
Tamise . (LELAND-E1-P2,118.317)

There remayne yet the names of these streates emong other :
Tamise-streat , Fische-streate , Bred-streat , Woodstreat ,
Goldsmithes-row . (LELAND-E1-P2,118.318)

And by the patentes and donations of Edmunde Erle of Cornewaul and Lord
of the Honor of Wallingeford <font> it appereth </font>
{COM:'it_appereth'_interpolated} that ther wer 14. paroch chirchis in
Walingford . (LELAND-E1-P2,118.319)

And ther be men yet alyve that can shew the places and cemiteries
<P_119> wher yn the {COM:sic} al stoode . (LELAND-E1-P2,119.320)

At this tyme there be but 3. poore paroch chirches in the town .
(LELAND-E1-P2,119.321)

Ther was a priory of blake monkes , a celle to S. Alban , suppressid by
Thomas Woulsey cardinale , standing hard withyn the west gate of
Wallingford . (LELAND-E1-P2,119.322)

The toun and the castelle was sore defacid by the Danes warres .
(LELAND-E1-P2,119.323)

Yet they meatly reflorichid in the tyme of Richard King of Romaines and
Erle of Cornewaulle , brother to King Henry the 3 .
(LELAND-E1-P2,119.324)

This Richard did much cost on the castelle . (LELAND-E1-P2,119.325)

The castelle yoinith to the north gate of the toune ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,119.326)

and hath 3. dikis , large and deap , and welle waterid .
(LELAND-E1-P2,119.327)

About ech of the 2. first dikis , as apon the crestes of the ground
cast out of $them , rennith an embatelid waulle now sore yn ruine , and
for the most part defaced . (LELAND-E1-P2,119.328)

Al the goodly building with the tourres and dungeon be withyn the 3.
dike . (LELAND-E1-P2,119.329)

There is also a collegiate chapel emong the buildinges withyn the 3.
dike . (LELAND-E1-P2,119.330)

Edmund Erle of Cornewale , sunne to Richard King of the Romains , was
the first founder and endower of this college . (LELAND-E1-P2,119.331)

Prince Edwarde , as one told me , the Blak , augmentid this college .
(LELAND-E1-P2,119.332)

There is a decane , 4. prestes , 6. clerkes and 4. choristers .
(LELAND-E1-P2,119.333)

{COM:lacuna} the late decane afore Dr. London that now is buildid a
fair steple of stone at the weste ende of the collegiate chapelle , to
making wherof he defacid , as it is said , withoute licens a peace of
the kinges lodging , joyning on the est ende of the chapelle .
(LELAND-E1-P2,119.334)

<P_120>

The decane hath a fair lodging of tymbre withyn the castelle :
(LELAND-E1-P2,120.336)

and to it is yoinid a place for the ministers of the chapelle .
(LELAND-E1-P2,120.337)

From Walingford to Makeney in Barkshir a good mile .
(LELAND-E1-P2,120.338)

Mr. Molynes hath a pratie manor place of brike ther .
(LELAND-E1-P2,120.339)

One Courte buildid this house of late dayes . (LELAND-E1-P2,120.340)

This Court was uncle to Molines , that now dwellith at Makeney .
(LELAND-E1-P2,120.341)

Molines hath not this lordship only , but a nother in Oxfordshir not
far from Dorchester , caullid Moungewelle , (LELAND-E1-P2,120.342)

and is li. in value by yere , (LELAND-E1-P2,120.343)

and hath fair woodes . (LELAND-E1-P2,120.344)

The house of Molines habitation byfore the death of Court was yn
Hamptonshir about an 8. miles from Saresbyri at a place caullid Sandhil
, wher is a fair manor place . (LELAND-E1-P2,120.345)

From Walingford to Sinodune about a mile and a half .
(LELAND-E1-P2,120.346)

This place is wonderful dikid about (LELAND-E1-P2,120.347)

and stondith on a hille in Barkshir , hanging over the Tamise .
(LELAND-E1-P2,120.348)

It is yn by estimation half a mile . (LELAND-E1-P2,120.349)

And withyn it hath beene sum toune , or , as the commune voice sayith ,
a castelle in the Britannes tyme , defacid by lykelihod by the Danes .
(LELAND-E1-P2,120.350)

At this tyme it berith very plentifullye booth barley and whete ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,120.351)

and <font> numismata Romanorum </font> be ther found yn ploughyng .
(LELAND-E1-P2,120.352)

About this Sinodune beginnith the fruteful vale of White-Horse ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,120.353)

and so strecchith by south west toward Farington quarters .
(LELAND-E1-P2,120.354)

This vale is not plentiful of woodde .
{COM:leland_left_a_long_blank_after_this_sentence}
(LELAND-E1-P2,120.355)

From Sinodune to Abbingdon 6. miles . (LELAND-E1-P2,120.356)

A little a this side the bridge over the Ise at Abbingdon is a
confluence of 2. armes that brekith aboute the est ende of
Abbingdon-Abbay out of the hole streame of the Ise , and make 2. litle
isles or mediamnes . (LELAND-E1-P2,120.357)

And at this confluence self in the very mouth is a very fair bridge of
7. arches : (LELAND-E1-P2,120.358)

and a very litle beneth this bridge booth the armes yoinid
(LELAND-E1-P2,120.359)

and renning in one botom goith ynto Ise . (LELAND-E1-P2,120.360)

<P_121>

The greath {COM:sic} bridge at Abbingdon over Ise hath a 14. arches .
(LELAND-E1-P2,121.362)

The toun of Abbingdon afore the abbay was buildid there was caullid
Seukesham . (LELAND-E1-P2,121.363)

The abbay was first begon at Bagley Wood in Barkshir a 2. miles more
upper on the Ise then Abbingdon now is : (LELAND-E1-P2,121.364)

but the foundations and the workes there prosperid not ; wherapon it
was translatid to Seukesham , and ther finished most by the costes of
King Cissa , that there after was buried ; (LELAND-E1-P2,121.365)

but the very place and tumbe of his burial was never knowen syns the
Danes defacid Abbingdon . (LELAND-E1-P2,121.366)

I hard that ther was an holy heremite , kynne to King Cissa , that
lyvid in the woodes and marisches about Seukesham , and that the abbay
for his sake and by his meanes was buildid there .
(LELAND-E1-P2,121.367)

Ethelwolde , Abbate of Abbingdon , and after Bisshop of Winchestre , yn
King Edgares $days did clerely renovate and augmentid this abbay ,
digging and caussing a gut to cum out of Isis by force to serve and
purge thoffices of thabbay . (LELAND-E1-P2,121.368)

The chirche and buildinges that he made ther were after taken doune and
new made by Norman abbates in the first Norman kinges tymes . The est
partes wherof yet be seene . (LELAND-E1-P2,121.369)

The tower in the midle of the chirch , al the body of the chirch , and
the towers at the west ende of it wher made by 4. abbates immediatelie
praeceding the last 4. abbates of Abbingdon . (LELAND-E1-P2,121.370)

The latter 2. of the 4. abbates that buildid the west part of the
chirch were thus namid : Aschendune and Sante . (LELAND-E1-P2,121.371)

Sante was a doctor of divinite , (LELAND-E1-P2,121.372)

and was imbassador at Rome bothe-1 for King Edward the fourth and
Henrie the vij. (LELAND-E1-P2,121.373)

At the west end of the area wheryn the abbay chirch of Abbingdon
stondith is a charnel chapelle , to the which was gyven the profite of
a chapelle at Bayworth by Bagley-Wood . (LELAND-E1-P2,121.374)

On the south side of the area is al the abbate and conventes lodging .
(LELAND-E1-P2,121.375)

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In old tymes many of the villages about Abbingdon had but chapelles of
ease , (LELAND-E1-P2,122.377)

and Abbingdon Abbay was their mother chirch , (LELAND-E1-P2,122.378)

and there they buried . (LELAND-E1-P2,122.379)

There is at the west ende of thabbay withowt the gate a chirch dedicate
to S. Nicolas , and buildid by one abbate Nicolas for the ease of the
toun encreasing with people . (LELAND-E1-P2,122.380)

Again this on the other side without thabbay gate is a chirch dedicate
to S. John , (LELAND-E1-P2,122.381)

and there is an hospital having 6. almose menne .
(LELAND-E1-P2,122.382)

The kinges be countid for founders of this hospitale .
(LELAND-E1-P2,122.383)

There is a paroch chirch of S. Helene at the south ende of the toun
apon Isis as the ryver cummith from the abbay downeward .
(LELAND-E1-P2,122.384)

At this place was sumtyme a nunnery : (LELAND-E1-P2,122.385)

and yn S. Ethelwoldes tyme that renewid thabbay of Abbingdon wer
straunge thinges and tumbes found yn digging . (LELAND-E1-P2,122.386)

There is now an hospital of 6. men and 6. women at S. Helenes
maintained by a fraternite ther , as I hard . (LELAND-E1-P2,122.387)

A very litle beneth S. Helenes cummith Och ryver thorough the vale of
Whit-Horse into Isis . (LELAND-E1-P2,122.388)

There is a mille almost at the mouth of this confluence caullid
Ocke-mille , and nother above it . (LELAND-E1-P2,122.389)

There is a right goodly crosse of stone with fair degres and imagerie
in the market steede of Abbingdon . (LELAND-E1-P2,122.390)

There is also a fair house with open pillars coverid with a rofe of
leade for market folkes . (LELAND-E1-P2,122.391)

The toun of Abbingdon stondith by clothing . (LELAND-E1-P2,122.392)

The market is quik there . (LELAND-E1-P2,122.393)

Remembre to speke with Mr. Bachelar in Abbingdon , and the prior of
Abbingdon dwelling a mile from Abbingdon , for the book <font> de
Gestis abbatum de Abbingdune </font> . (LELAND-E1-P2,122.394)

From Abbingdon to a fair waren of conies longging to thabbay about a
mile . (LELAND-E1-P2,122.395)

Thens a 4. miles to Chisilhampton bridge . (LELAND-E1-P2,122.396)

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Thens to Haseley 3. miles . (LELAND-E1-P2,123.398)

From Haseley to Oxford about a 7 miles . (LELAND-E1-P2,123.399)

Robertus de Oilleio that cam into England with Wylliam Conqueror had
given to hym the baronyes of Oxford and Sainct Waleries .
(LELAND-E1-P2,123.400)

This Robert made the castelle of Oxford , (LELAND-E1-P2,123.401)

and , as I conject , other made the waulles of Oxford
(LELAND-E1-P2,123.402)

or repairid them . (LELAND-E1-P2,123.403)

This Robert made the chapelle of S. George in the castelle of Oxforde ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,123.404)

and foundid a college of prebendaries there . (LELAND-E1-P2,123.405)

This Robert dyid withowt issue , (LELAND-E1-P2,123.406)

and wher he was buried it is not very certeinly knowen .
(LELAND-E1-P2,123.407)

This Robert had one John de Einerio that was exceding familiar with hym
, and had beene in the warres as sworen brother onto hym , and had
promised to be part taker of Robertes fortunes . Wherapon he enrichid
hym with possessions , and , as sum think , gave hym S. Waleries .
(LELAND-E1-P2,123.408)

Robert Oilley had a brother caullid Nigellus , of whom be no verye
famose thinges written . (LELAND-E1-P2,123.409)

Nigellus had a sunne caullid Robert that provid a very noble man .
(LELAND-E1-P2,123.410)

This Robert the 2. had a wife caullid Edith Forne , a woman of fame and
highly estemid with King Henry the $first by whose procuration Robert
weddid her . (LELAND-E1-P2,123.411)

This Robert began the priorie of blake chanons at Oseney by Oxford
emong the isles that Isis ryver ther makith . (LELAND-E1-P2,123.412)

Sum write that this was the occasion of making of it .
(LELAND-E1-P2,123.413)

Edith usid to walk out $of Oxford Castelle with her gentilwomen to
solace and that often tymes , wher yn a certen place in a tre as often
as she came a certen pies usid to gether to it , and ther to chatte ,
and as it wer to speke onto her . (LELAND-E1-P2,123.414)

Edithe much marveling at this matier , (LELAND-E1-P2,123.415)

and was sumtyme sore ferid as by wonder . Wherapon she sent for one
Radulph , a chanon of S. Frediswides , a man of a vertuus life and her
confessor , asking hym counsel : to whom he answerid , after that he
had seene the fascion of the pies chattering only at her cumming , that
she should builde sum chirch or monasterie in that place .
(LELAND-E1-P2,123.416)

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Then she entreatid her husband to build a priorie ,
(LELAND-E1-P2,124.418)

and so he did , making Radulp the first prior of it .
(LELAND-E1-P2,124.419)

The cumming of Edith to Oseney and Radulph waiting on her , and the tre
with the chattering pies be paintid in the waulle of tharch over Edith
tumbe in Oseney priorie . (LELAND-E1-P2,124.420)

There lyith an image of Edithe of stone in thabbite of a wowes ,
holding an hart in her right hond , on the north side of the high
altare . (LELAND-E1-P2,124.421)

Robert Oilley the 2. founder of Oseney priorie , was buried in thabbay
of Eignesham a 3. miles from Oxford . (LELAND-E1-P2,124.422)

Robert Oilley the 2. had faire issue by Edith his wife , emong the
which Henry was his heire . (LELAND-E1-P2,124.423)

This Henry lyith buried yn Oseney chirch , in the veri midle of the
presbyteri , under a flatte marble stone , wherapon is a flourid cross
porturid . (LELAND-E1-P2,124.424)

This Henry had Henry the 2 . (LELAND-E1-P2,124.425)

And from Henry the 2. were other discentes ; (LELAND-E1-P2,124.426)

but in processe the landes of the Oilleys were disparkelid .
(LELAND-E1-P2,124.427)

Ther is at this tyme one of the Oilleis a man of a li. land dwelling
... (LELAND-E1-P2,124.428)