[folio 186] A Confirmacion of kyng henry fitȝ Emperesse, for all almesse and all maner thyngis that were I-yeve or shold be yeve to the mynchons of Gode|stowe, & cetera.
About 1175. General confirma|tion to Godstow, by Henry II, of all their property.
THE sentence of this charter is that henry, kyng of Englond, & cetera, graunted, and confermed with this present charter, to the mynchons of Godestowe, all the almesse, in chirches and londes and tythes and in alle other thyngis, that were resonably I-yeve to them or shold be yeve. Wherfor he willed and comaunded surely that the forsaid mynchons shold haue and holde all ther almesse and possessions, bothe of chirch [and*. [Added from the Latin copy.] lay] fee, [in*. [Added from the Latin copy.] wood and plain, in meadows and pastures, in waters] and mylles, in pondis and maryse*. ['in vivariis et mariscis.'], in weyes and pathis, and in all other placis and other thyngis perteynyng to Page 661 them, wele and in pease, frely and quyetly, holy and worship|fully, with all fredoms and fre customs. Witnesse thise, & cetera.
*. [[NOTE.—Directed to 'all archbishops,' &c. Witnesses are:—G[eoffrey Ridel], bishop of Ely [1174-89]; Hugh [Pudsey], bishop of Durham [1153-95]; and G[eoffrey Plantagenet], bishop elect of Lincoln [1173]; Walter, archdeacon of Oxford; Roger, the king's chaplain; Richard de Luci; Reginald de Curtenai; &c. The explanation of this charter, as of its immediate predecessors, may be that Godstow felt the need of additional protection for lands acquired since no. 879; and so we are led on to the next charter, which enumerates by name both the old properties and those lately acquired.]]