which Mabel daughter of Seward bequeathed to them, subject to a yearly rent-charge of 49 shillings.
Witnesses:—four chaplains of Godstow, Thomas, Walerand, Adam, and Gilebert.]
About 1240? Grant to Godstow, by Vincent Menge, of a plot of land.
THE sentence of this charter is that Vyncente Menge of wycombe yaf & cetera, to god & cetera and to the mynchons of Godestowe ther seruynge god and to serue for ever, one place of his tenement in the towne of [folio 175b] wycombe, the which conteynyth in lengthe viij. perches and x. fote, and in brede to his ende vttemost toward the tenement of the forsaid Vincente Menge iiij. perchis, and iiij. fote at the other ende, And hit strecchithe hit-self fro the tenement of Adam Gluter of the west side by lyne, as the markes haue them self, vnto the tenement of Iohn I-called knyght, of the Est parte: To be had and to be hold, with all his pertynentis, of hym and his heires or his assignes, to the forsaid mynchons and to ther successours, frely quyetly wele and holy for ever, into pure and perpetuell almesse. And the said Vincente Menge and his heires or his assignes warantiȝed aquyted and defended for ever all the forsaid place, as hit is diuided afore, with all his pertynentis, to the forsaid mynchons and to ther successours, with the owne costis, ayenst all men and women. And that this ther yifte, & cetera.
1249/50, Febr. 2. Sale to Godstow, by John and Alice Waleys, of all right in a rent|charge, and the rever|sionary rights it conferred.
THE sentence of this charter is, that Iohn Waleys and Alice his wyf yaf graunted and quyteclaymed, for them and ther heires, to the Abbesse of Godestowe and to the Couente of the same place, ij. d. of yerely rente, the which they were I-wonyd to haue, and had, of that mese that Richard Smyth held in Wycombe, that lieth bitwene the mese that Walter Slegh helde and a mese that Geffrey Agmodesham helde: To be had and to
