[NOTE.—At the dissolution (1540) the land Anfric in Little Missenden parish yielded Godstow £3 6s. 8d. yearly: Monast. iv. 374.]
1258/9, March 23. Sale to Godstow, by Ralph and Agnes Chendut, of land called An|fric, late held by Sir Ralph of the checur Sale-price £35 6s. 8d., besides taking his sister-in|law Ka|therine into a nun's place with|out a por|tion. The sellers to find their own and their servants' 'horse and harness' while ob|taining con|firmation in the king's court. Payment to be in two instal|ments, (a) at God|stow, when Katherine enters Godstow, (b) at a place to be agreed upon, when confirma|tion is got. Godstow is bound to these con|ditions, by distraint over lands of the fee of Richard, earl of Cornwall Ralph Chendut also binds himself to carry out these covenants. Ralph Chendut, after the king's court assented to the sale, must make a charter, confirming 'Anfric' to Godstow.
THE sentence of thys a-corde is, that bytwene the lady of Godstowe & the couent of that on party, & Raph Chendut & agnes hys wyfe of that othyr party, at Godstowe, the sonne-day in the whyche is songe 'letare Ierusalem,' the yere of kynge henry the sonne of kynge Iohn xliijo, so, that is to say, that the seyd Raph hathe left & claymyd to be in rest for hym selfe, by the consent & the assent of agnes hys wyfe & of hys heyrys, all the ryht & clayme that they haddyn or myht haue in the londe that is callid Anfric, the whyche sumtyme was of sir Raph of the checur, uppon ryngeshull [This, by the map, ought to be Kyngeshull.] in the parisshe of litil Myssynden, with all hys pertinences, in medewys, pasturys & in wodys, with out ony with-holdynge a-geyne, that may longe to hem or to her heyrys in ony maner of wyse, to the seyd Abbas & couent of Godstowe & to her successours for euyr. For thys quiete|claime & reles, the seyd abbas & holy mynchons of Godstowe yafe to the seyde raph & agnes hys wyfe liijo. marke & made katerine, the systur of the seyd agnes (wyfe of the seyd raph), Mynchon in the monasteri of Godstowe with the costys of the hows: & the same Raph, by the bettyr councell & prouidence of discrete men, with-out tariinge or slewthynge, al so sone as hyt myht lawfully be done, with the hows costys, he sholde more-ouyr make hys wyfe to make the seyd londe to be charturd in the kyngys courte, out-take that the seyd raph shal fynde hors & harnes to hym-selfe & to hys wyfe & to hem that were of hys howshold al so longe as they laboryd a-bout the purchesynge of the kyngys chartur; and the seyd holy my[n]chons of Godstowe shold pay to the seyd raph & agnes hys wyfe xxv. marke of the forseyd liij. marke in that day in the whyche the fore-seyd katerine sholde be delyuerd to hem to be norysshyd & to be made mynchon in the same place & in the whyche the
