The Lease for Life, dated 20 Mar 11 Hen
VII (1496), is as follows:
PARTIES:
1. a) Richard Hewis, Mayor of Oxford.
b) John Seman.
c) Edward Wodeward.
b) John Eggcomb.
e) Richard Kent, all aldermen of
Oxford.
f) Richard Millet.
g) Roger Robyns, both bailiffs of
Oxford.
h) Roger Baxter.
i) John Tacley, both chamberlains of
Oxford.
2. a) John Herdson.
b) Joan his wife.
PROPERTY: 5 cottages and an adjoining
garden within walls of Oxford in
'Bocardolane' 90 feet in length and
extending from a garden of 2 to the west
to a stable occ. by William Peri to the
east. 2 is to maintain property.
[Bocardo Lane is now St Michael's St].
RENT: 10s.
LANGUAGE: Latin.
Summarised in Salter p.230.
The Quitclaim, which is undated, is as
follows:
PARTIES:
1. a) Giles Pulton of Lillingstone
Lovell, Gent.
b) Katherine, Wife of 1a.
2. a) John Wherton, Clerk.
b) Edward Rigge, Clerk.
PROPERTY: A rent of 8s 6d from a
tenement called `Le Sarsenhede' [The
Saracen's Head?] on the south side of
High Street, Oxford, between a tenement
of Magdalen College to the west and a
tenement of University College to the
east; also a rent of 2s from a tenement
in Oxford St. Michael at the Southgate
[now part of St. Aldates] in Grandpont
between a tenement of the Prior and
Convent of St. Frideswide to the north
and a tenement of John Eggcomb to the
south.
COMMENTS: 1 quitclaim their rights on
the above to 2.
Although this document is undated, it is
closely related to P6/43D/2 below,
which is dated to 1496.
LANGUAGE: Latin.
Summarised in Salter p.230.