Oxnead Parsonage

934

OXNEAD PARSONAGE¹

The comodytys off the parsonage and the valew off the
benyfyce off Oxned.

     MY new parson off Oxned, whan he is instute and inducte,
        at the first entre in to the chyrch and benefyce off
        Oxned, must off awncyent custom long contynued
with in the dyosesse off Norwyche, pay to the byschopp off
Norwych, for the first frutes off the seyd benefyce, xiiij.
marke; for wyche xiiij. marke, iff the new parson be wytty
and have favour a bowt the Byschops offycers, he schall have
days off paiment to pay the seid xiiij. marke in xiiij. yere, that
is, a marke a yere, till it be payd; so that he can fynd suffy-
cyent mene to be bownd to the Bischopp be obligacion to kepe
his days off payment.

     And the chyrch is but litill, and is resonable plesaunt, and
reparyd. [And the] dwellyng place of the parsonage is a
yoynyng to the . . . . . . . . . . . . d well howsyd and
reparyd, hall, chamberes, barn, doffhowse, and all howsys off
offyce.

     And it hath a doffhowse worth a yere, xiiijs. iiijd.

     And it hath ij. large gardens with frute, and is yonynge to
the place and chyrch yard, wher off the frute is worth yerly,
xxvjs. viijd.

     And ther longith to the seid parsonage in fre lond, arable,
pasture and medowe ayonyng to the seid parsonage, xxij^ti acre
or more, wher off every acre is worth ijs.; to latyn [to let],
iijli. iiijd.

     And William Paston, Justice, qwan he¹ cam fyrst to dwell
in the maner of Oxned, paid to the parson that was than for
the corne growyng on the parsonage londys and for the
tythynges, ondely but in corne whan it was inned in to the
barn, xxiiijli.

     And the same yere the parson had all the awterage and
oder profytes be syde the seyd xxiiijli.

     It is yerly worth, as the world goth now, xli.

     And it is butt an esy cure to kepe, ffor ther ar natt past
xx^ti persons to be yerly howselyd.²

     The parsonage stant be a fresh ryver syde.

     And ther is a good markett town callyd Alysham, within
ij. myle off the parsonage.

     And the cyte of Norwych is within vj. myle off the
parsonage.

     And the see is within x. myle off the parsonage.

     And if a parson cam now, and warr presentyd, institute,
and inducte, he shuld have by the lawe all the cropp that is
now growyng, that was eryd and sowyn off the old parsons
cost, growyng on the parsonage landes now, as his own good,
and all the tyth off all maner graynys off the maner, londes,
and tenantes londes,³ towardes his charges off the fyrst frutes.
And if it ware innyd it war (the crop now growyng)⁴ worth
his first frutes.

     ¹ He that hath this benefice, and he were a pore man, myght
have lycens to have service be side.

     The Beshop ought not to have the valew of this cropp for
the arrerages of the fyrst fruttes that Sir Thomas Everard, last
parson of Oxned, oght to the Bysshop whan he died, for the
said Sir Thomas Everard was bond to the Bisshop in an
obligacion for the said frutes, and the said Sir Thomas
Everard, for to defraude the Bysshop and oder men that he
owid mony to, gaff a way his gooddes to serten persons, qwech
persons toke a way the said goodes, and also durres and wyn-
dow of the said parsonage; and it is though that both the
Bysshop and the patron myght take accions a gayns the said
persons.

     ¹ [From Paston MSS., B.M.] The date of this document is shown by the follow-
ing mutilated endorsement: ‘. . . . . . . . . . . . parsonage of Oxnede
made xxxj. Julii, A^o xviij^o E. iiij^ti.’ The first words were doubtless ‘The value of,’
or something to that effect; but the paper is mutilated.

     ¹ ‘William Paston, Justice, qwan he.’ These words are a correction, interlined,
in the hand of William Paston, the uncle of Sir John. The text stood originally,
‘And my hosbond and I whan we.’

     ² i.e. to receive the sacrament.

     ³ Off the maner londes and tenantes londes. These words are interlined by
William Paston.

     ⁴ This parenthesis is an interlineation by William Paston.

                                 ¹ What follows is in William Paston’s hand.

JULY 31

1478
JULY 31

1478
JULY 31