pagane lorde of þe same towne, & confirmid bi his chartur of feffinge, j watur mille, with þe ponde, close, & pasture liinge þer-to, & with þe seute of grindinge, & all oþer pertinences, in þe fore-seide towne, to be had & to be holde, to him & to his heiris or assinis as hit is fulli contined in his fore-seide chartur, for þe whiche mille þe same william a-fore was wonid to pai to þe ladi abbas and couent of Godestowe, he willid to be knowe þat he was I-bounde bi þis present writinge for him-selfe & for his heiris all his maner of framton, with his mille þerwith a-fore|seide, to pai þe xxx. shillings a-fore-seide of yerli rent [At the dissolution, 1540, Godstow was still receiving £1 10s. from Frampton mills.] to þe fore|seide abbas of Godestowe & to þe couent of þe same place fro yer in-to yere, & for to kepe þe fore-seide william harmeles her|aftur for euir fro all hurtes distreininges or greuis þerof. In-to witnes here-of his seele was hangid to þis writinge. The date at wode Eton, þe iiij. dai of aprile, þe v. yer of þe reine of kinge Edwarde þe sone of kinge Edwarde.
A.D. 1138/9. Grant to Godstow, by Robert Chi|chester, bishop of Exeter(1138|55), of a pen|sion of £1 out of St. Mary le Crypt.
THE sentence of this euidence is, þat Robert, by the grace of God bysshop of exetur, ȝaf & grauntid to þe holy mynchons of Godestow xl. shillings in-to perpetuel almys ȝerly, þat is to say, in owre lady church of Gloucetur xx. shillings, and in the church of faryndon xx shillings. These beyng wytnys Stephyn, kynge of Inglonde; Theobald, Archebysshop of Caunterbyry, & mony other. And is with-owte [date].
1289, Oct. 8. Decision binding the parson of St. Mary ad austrum, to pay yearly a pension of £1 to Godstow, as in no. 163.
THE sentence of this wrytyng [is], þat in þe church of seynte Nicholas of glowcetur, the satyrday next after þe feste of seynte Fyde virgine, The ȝere of owre lorde a thowsande two hundred
