Christ Church MS. 342

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Note on 'a kyntts fee'. Printed by H. E. Salter, ed., Eynsham Cartulary, 2 vols, OHS, 49 & 51 (Oxford, 1907–1908), 2:2.

This and the contents list that follows are in one hand, datable to after 1531 (see provenance) but patently pre-Dissolution. This anglicana current cursive with secretary elements also intervenes in the cartulary, providing text at fol. 36^v, 94^v-95, 107, 108^r and 108^v-109, as well as running headers at fol. 36, 37, 43, 105.

A contents list written by the hand seen at fol. iv^r, with folio numbers added later (s. xvii) in a smaller script which is that of the volume’s foliation, possibly by Anthony Wood.

Fol. v^v, vi & vii: blank.

Fully edited by Salter, 2:2–154, catalogued as Davis no. 400 (81).

The contents are divided, for the most part, by manor and can be summarised as follows:

• fol. 1–8^v: ‘Shyfforde’, with loss of text after end of quire (Salter 2:15);
• fol. 9–13^v: ‘Wodeton’ (ie Wood Eaton);
• fol. 14: blank;
• fol. 15–17^v: ‘Cherlebery’ (ie Charlbury), ending at l. 5;
• rest of fol. 17^v and fol. 18: blank;
• fol. 19–20: ‘Fauelore’ (ie Fawler), ending at l. 7;
• rest of fol. 20 and fol. 20^v: blank;
• fol. 21–22^v: ‘Hundred de Bannebery’, on an inserted bifolium; text ends at l. 7, with rest of folio blank;
• fol. 23–27^v: ‘Eynesham’;
• fol. 28: presumably originally blank, now with start of charter of 1442–44 concerning ‘Cateshambrygge’ (anglicana, s. xv^med; Salter, no. 608), and stitched to the top of fol. 28^v, a slip (113 × 170mm) with short text also relating to Cateshambridge (s. xv^2/2, printed by Salter, 2:42n);
• fol. 29: first of 14 inserted leaves within quire 4, with completion of charter and ‘nota contra abbatem de Letley’ (another anglicana, s. xv; Salter, no. 609);
• fol. 30–35 and following unnumbered stub: all blank, but with signs of thread that would have held a slip stitched to the bottom of fol. 31;
• fol. 36–38: various documents relating to Newbottle, Cogges and Langley Park (three s. xvi scripts, the second that of contents list etc; Salter, nos 610–13), the last item occupying only the open quarter of fol. 38;
• rest of fol. 38^r and fol. 38^v-40^r: all blank;
• fol. 40^v-41^v: ‘Registrum de acquietanciis’ (s. xv; Salter, no. 614);
• fol. 42–45^v: (return to original quire structure) ‘Eynesham’ (s. xiv^ex; Salter, no. 615);
• fol. 46–50: ‘Rolendryght’ (ie Rollright);
• fol. 50^v-51: ‘Brokende’ (ie Brookend);
• fol. 51^v: blank;
• fol. 52–82^v (quire 6, first recto and especially last verso rubbed, suggesting the quire had once stood alone as its own fascicule and been left exposed; the construction of the quire seems also to have developed over time): copies of records relating to various estates (all printed by Salter, nos. 618–672 [88–118]), starting with ‘Fylkyng’, and including ‘Tylgarsle’ (Tilgarsley, part of Eynsham), ‘Mukleton’ (Mickleton, Glos.), Stanton St. John and various forests, as well as disputes involving the Abbey, with fol. 59^v, 60^r (except for a cancelled note at top),71, 72, 77^v (apart from two-line note of expenses [not in Salter] at top) all blank (probably four hands of s. xiv^2/2);
• fol. 83–93^v: ‘Stoke’ (ie South Stoke), with last two items (Salter, nos. 675 & 676 [137–38] added, first s. xiv^med, second, s. xiv^ex);
• fol. 94^r: blank;
• fol. 94^v-95^v: originally blank, now with ‘Redditus assise de Sowthstoke’ (s. xvi^2/4, script of contents list etc.; Salter, no. 678 [139–40]), with only two lines at top of fol. 95^v;
• rest of fol. 95^v and 96–101: all blank but bounded, and with erased notes at very top of fol. 101^v;
• fol. 102–106^v: ‘Carswell’, at fol. 103^v occupying only the top quarter of the folio, the rest of which is blank (two hands, s. xiv^ex);
• fol. 107^r: originally blank, now with receipts from ‘Mylcomb’ (s. xvi^2/4, same script as contents list);
• fol. 107^v: blank;
• fol. 108: ‘In omnibus curiis observandis’ (s. xvi^2/4, same script as contents);
• fol. 108^v-109^r: Abbey appointment of proxies, dated to 1531 (two scripts, s. xvi^2/2, the second that of fol. 94^v etc), with text ending after two lines at top of fol. 109^r;
• rest of fol. 109^r, and 109^v-110^v: blank;
• fol. 111^r (bottom half only now present, top half cut out): grant by the Abbey, dated 1499 (s. xvi^1/4);
• fol. 111^v and 112^r: blank;
• fol. 112^v-113^r: ‘Pons Cantebrigie’ (s. xiv^ex), with bottom half of fol. 113^r now blank, except for an inscription scratched out;
• fol. 113^v (heavily rubbed): originally blank, a record of a receipt (s. xv^med), below and above probationes pennae.