sowle and of the sowles of her fadir and modir and of her aunceturs and successours, graunted, & cetera, into pure and perpetuel almesse, to god & cetera and to the mynchons of Godestowe ther seruyng god, v. cartlode of wode of Aldur ['de alno in bosco meo de Horsford' in the Latin.] in her wode I-called horford to be take by yere, that is to sey, xv. dayes after myghelmasse, to drye there heryng ['ad suum allec siccandum': herring being then in the midst of their season. The nuns probably bought a considerable quan|tity to dry for winter use. Herrings were brought up the Thames in barges, and, during Lent, Abingdon Abbey claimed toll of each barge so laden (Wood's City of Oxford, i. 427).] . And that this her graunte, & cetera.
About 1160? Grant to Godstow, by Peter of Brumelingham of a mill and a rent-charge.
PETER and his wife Felicia, gave, with their daughter to be a nun, their mill of Humesworth [Writing indistinct: possibly 'Hinnes|worth.' See Highworth mill, in no. 886 § 59.] and 2s. of rent at Hespes.
Witnesses:—Wacheline, abbot of Abingdon; Nicholas, monk of Evesham; Magister Roger and his nephew Simon; and the donor's sons William and Hugh.
About 1190. Grant to Godstow, by Alan of Leigh, of five acres in Petham, in exchange for a rent|charge.
ALAN of Leigh lets all men, French and English, know, that with his daughter Amphelisia to be a nun, he has given to Godstow, with consent of his son and heir Roger, five acres which lie above the house of the parson of St. Peter of Far|ningeham on the east, which acres belonged to the mill of Farningeham, and which Godfrey son of Godwin of the bridge held of him in exchange for that half-marc of rent [This rent-charge, given by Alan of Leigh, is found in Henry II's third charter (no. 886), 1182.] which Richard of Grai used to pay to the nuns in the tenure of Putham,
