Draft Gift

Scope and Content

PARTIES:

1. John Fosbroke of Oxford, Mercer.

2. a) Edward Wodeward, Mayor of Oxford.

b) John Seman.

c) John Eggecomb.

d) Richard Hewis.

e) Richard Kent, all Aldermen of

Oxford.

f) Ralph Bathum.

g) John Ashley, both Bailiffs of

Oxford.

h) William Weston.

i) Roger Robyns, both Chamberlains of

Oxford.

PROPERTY: Toft and garden close

situated in a road called New Land

within Cogges next to Witteney. The

property is on the north side of the

street between a messuage late of John

Heryng junior to the west and a messuage

once of Richard Horn to the east, and

extends in length from the north field

to the High Road.

COMMENTS: Edward Wodeward was mayor of

Oxford several times in the 1480s and

1490s, so the deed can be dated to this

period.

LANGUAGE: Latin.

Transcribed in Salter p.248.

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