Cheverell, knyght, and to his heires, and to his assigneis, what|so-ever thei be: Send gretyng in our lord god; wher, [to] the Religious ladies Abbesse and Couent of Godestow, ser Pagane de Cadurcijs, our brother, by his charter, in pure and perpetuel almesse, x. mark of yerely rent at hauyngdon to be taken, for hym and his heires, yaf and graunted and assigned: which for|seid yifte by our writyng we conferme; and vnto yow by this present writyng yeve in comaundement that fro hens forthe vpon the payment [folio 222] of the forseid rent at the forseid termes to the forseid Religious or to theire attorney with-out ony difficulte that ye take hede and full payment that ye make. In witnesse wherof, to this present writyng We have put to our seale, and to perpetuel memorie thise our presentis we have made our lettres patentis. The date is at Chynemareford, in the fest of whitsontyde, The yere of the reigne of kyng Edward the xjth.
A.D. 1283. Agreement between Godstow, and Alex|ander of Cheverell, as to pay|ment of his rent|charge of £6 13s. 4d. (as in no. 139 and no. 141), at Water|eaton manor near Cricklade, Godstow undertak|ing to en|tertain the person who brings the money, and pro|mising to claim no 'relief' or other feudal service, and agree|ing to collect the rent-charge from the holder's guardians during a minority, and Alex|ander of Cheverell subjecting all his Maiden Newton property to distraint for said rent|charge.
THE sentence of this covenaunte is made bitwene the Abbesse of Godestow and the Couent of the same place of that one partie, and [folio 220b] Alexandre, sone and heire of Iohn Cheverell, knyght, on that other partie: That is to sey, that where-as Pagane de Cadurcijs to the forseid Abbesse and Covent and theire monastorie graunted and yaf by his charter x. mark of yerely rent which he was wonte to have of the forseid ser Iohn Cheverell, knyght, of dyuerse tenementis the which he held of hym in Mayden Newnton, to be taken of hym to ser Pagane and his heires in the maner of Hauyndon where the same Iohn and his heires the forsaid rent shold paye by his feffemente: And afterward ser Patrik of Cadurcijs, brother and heire of the forsaid ser Pagane, by his charter, assigned the forseid Alexandre and his heires and assignes and all other that shold hold the forseid tenementis that in all wise to paye the forseid rent to the forseid Abbesse and Couent and to there Monastery afor|seid, So that to them forthwith to aunswere of the seid rent. And the forseid Abbesse, with one wille and assent of her Covent
