baptiste of Godestowe & to þe minchons þere seruinge god, þe churche of Dalingworþe, with all his pertinences, in-to pure & perpetuel almis, fre & quiete fro all seculer seruice & exaccion, as his vncles Raph & walter bloet gaf & grauntid & confirmid to þe fore-seide minchons, as her charturs witnessin: & þat his gifte & confirmacion sholde a-bide stable & firme, he put to his seele to þis present writinge: & is with-oute date [Witnesses: 'Sir' Simon of Hinton, Absalom of Stanton, Sir Ralph Harang, Sir William of Sewekesworthe.] .
About 1165. Confirma|tions to Godstow, by Sir Ralph Bloet and by Ralph de Bede|ford, prior of Worces|ter (1146|89), vicar|general of Roger, bishop of Worcester (1164-79), of the advow|son of the church.
THE sentence of this confirmacion is, þat whenne Raph, prior of wircetur, kepid þe stede of Roger, bisshoppe of wircetur, Raph bloet [The re-grant by the donor was possibly due to some confusion caused by the fre|quent vacancies in the see, bishop Simon dying in 1149/50; bishop John Pagham, in 1157; and bishop Alfred, in 1160.] , knyht, grauntid & confirmid, in þe presence of þe seid prior & of mathewe, archedecun of gloucetur, to þe abbas & to þe mynchons of seint Iohn baptiste of Godestowe, þe churche of Dalingworth, in-to perpetuel almis, in þe full chapitur of þe clerkes of cicetur: þe same raph also, bi þe autorite þat he had, confirmid to þe fore-seid churche, abbas, & minchons, þe fore|namid gifte, & strengthid hit by þe ordre of þis writinge, & bi settynge to of his seele; & is with-oute date.
About 1165. Promise to Godstow, by John of Cundewell, incumbent, to pay Godstow a pension of 2s. out of the church, and oath of fealty to Godstow.
THIS was þe conuencion bi-twene þe churche of seint Iohn baptiste of Godestowe, & Iohn of Cundewell, clerke, vppon þe churche of Dalingeworth: þat þe fore-seid Iohn sholde haue to pension j. besaunt or ij. shillings yerli with-in þe vtas of seint Iohn baptiste, in the name of þe fore-seid churche of Dalingworþe, to be paid at Godestowe: & to þis couenaunt to be holde þe fore|seid Iohn made an othe bodili in þe presens of þe Abbas & of all þe couent & of mony oþer feiþful men, euin as he had made
