About 1240. Confirma|tion to Godstow, by John of Venuȝ, of rent|charges given by his grand|father William, viz. 8s. 4d. in Emp|shott and 5s. in Worldham.
THE sentence of this confirmacion is, that Iohn of Venuȝ for the helth of his sowle and of his auncetours and successours, graunted, and confermed with his writyng, to god and to oure lady seynt mary and to seynt Iohn Baptist of Godestow and to the Abbesse and covent there servyng god, a marke of rent, the which william his grauntsire alias Belesire yaf to hem: to be hold and I-had, to the same Abbesse and to the forsaid covent, of hym and of his heires, into pure and perpetuel almesse, takyng therof yerely of Gilbert of dene and of his heires at the Natiuite of Seynt Iohn Baptist viij. shillings iiij. d. for the tenauntry that the forsaid Gilbert of dene held of hym in the towne of hymbeset, and takyng of hym-self and of his heires yerely at Mighelmasse v. shillings in the towne of werdleham. And hit is to be knowe that he and his heires shold warantiȝe to the forsaid Abbesse and covent the forsaide marke of rent agaynst all men. And that his confirmacion shold be stable and sure, he sette his seale to this present writyng. These beyng witnesse, & cetera.
About 1253. Quit-claim to Godstow, by Richard of Dean, of a war|ranty over lands in Empshott, and substi|tution of warranty elsewhere, Godstow paying £5 6s. 8d.
THE sentence of this evidence is this, that Richard of dene relesed and quyte-claymed, of hym and of his heires, to Emme, Abbesse of Godestow, and to the Covent of the same and to theire successours, all his right and clayme that he had or myght have in [In the Latin: 'in dotacione warancie quam waranciam vocavi versus praedictam abbatissam.'] the vowry of the warantiȝyng the which he vowed to the forsaid Abbesse of the lond of the breche in the town of hymbeset, the whiche warantiȝed Thomas of dene the whiche ['The whiche' = who.] held no lond of hym and therof was he [i.e. Thomas, 'et inde implacitatus fuit.'] impleyde; and of his lond of Hogton he warantiȝed to the same Thomas;
