Volume 1
The cartulary of the Monastery of St. Frideswide at Oxford / edited from the Christ Church and Corpus mss. and other sources by the Rev. Spencer Robert Wigram.
- Date:
- 1895-1896
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The cartulary of the Monastery of St. Frideswide at Oxford / edited from the Christ Church and Corpus mss. and other sources by the Rev. Spencer Robert Wigram. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CARTULARY OF ST. FRIDESIVIDE’S. i. A. p. 7. Oseney Register, f. 4, b Printed D. M. ed. 1682, i. 1742, and ed. 1846, ii. 143, No. IV from Os., and Parker’s Early History of Oxford, p. 319, from A. [Early History of the Monastery.] Incipil Regislrum cartarum § vmnimentorum Monastery S. Frides- wyde Oxori, de fundacione eiusdem loci, combustione ac ipsius renouacione. Et de omnibus Ecclesijs, manerijs, terris, tenementis, iuribus, libertatibus, priuilegijs, consueludinibus, rusticorum seruitutibus, reddit\ibus\ por- cionibus, pensionibus Sf possessionibus quibuscunque ad dictum Mon. pertinentibus, secundum ordinem inferius distinctum. Notandum quod Didanus, quondam Rex Oxenford 3, regnauit A0 Incarnacionis Dominice d°cc° circiter xxvij0 4, vt patet in cronicis5. Iste Rex Didanus pater fuit S. Frideswyde6, qui sibi hunc locum dedit optatum, & monacharum 7 habitum dari fecit, Ecclesiam diuer- soria que religioni aptissima secus earn construxit, que quidem liquet in vita eiusdem Virginis 8. Item ibidem patet9 quod locum ilium qui dicebatur Thornebury10 nunc autem Benseia11 eadem virgo pacifice optinuit. Nam ibidem latitando fontem precibus impetrauit, & vnum a demone12 vexatum & alterum cuius manus securi adheserat liberauit. Post gloriosum B. F.13 obitum, per interualla temporum, amotis sanc- timonialibus u, introducti sunt Canonici seculares. 1 Cotton MSS. B. Mus. Vitellius E xv. Quoted in notes as Os. 2 Quoted in notes as D. 3 Oxenfordix D. * xxvj0 D. 5 vt patet in cronicis om. D. 0 Frediswidx D. 7 monachorum D, probably an error, as eds. 1655 and 1846 read monacharum. 8 ut patet in vita beatx virginis D. 9 patet ibidem D. l° tunc dicebatur Thornebirie D, Os. 11 Benseya D. 12 dxmonio D, demonio Os. 13 Frediswidx D, Frideswide Os. 14 monialibus D, Os. B](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2487923x_0001_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
