a knowlech þe fore-seyde tenement with þe pertinences to be ryht of þat abbas & of her churche of Godestowe, to be had & holde to þe same abbas, & to oþer abbasys þat sholde succede to her, & to her church of Godestowe, of þe foreseyde william & hys heyrys, in-to fre pur & perpetuel almys for euyr, so þat þe foreseyd william & hys heyrys sholde acquite all the foreseyde tenement towarde the foreseyde Raf & hys heyrys of all seruices and customys & all demaundys as hys pur & perpetuel almys for euyr: & for thys recogniscion, acquietance, fine & concorde, þe foreseyde abbas relesyd & claymyd quite of her & oþer abbassys succedynge her & of her churche of Godestow to the foreseyde william & to hys heyrys all harmys þat she had by the distreynynge made to her fore þe fore-seyde seruice by defaute of þe seyde william.
About 1240. Grant to Godstow, by William of Knowle, of an acre, a piece of land, and a ditch,
THE sentence of þys chartur is, þat wyllyam fitȝ Robert of Cnoll, by the assent & consent of aline hys wyfe & of wyllyam hys fyrst sone, gaf, grauntid, & confirmyd by hys wrytynge, to god & to þe hows of seynt Iohn baptiste of Godestowe & to þe holy mynchons there seruynge god, for þe helthe of hys sowle & of hys aunceturs & successours, on acre of londe in þe felde of Clere the whych is callid Ramisholte, the whyche lyeth by-twene þe londe of wolferton & þe londe of santforde, strecch|ynge for þe sowþe toward þe northe; Also j corner of londe in strokynges croft vppon þe northe syde, for þe whyche he was wonyd sum tyme to take yerly fowre horsshone of rent; Also on dyche, I-take & leueyd of hys londe & I-cast vppon hys londe, that depertyth vppon þe est syde þe londe of santford & vppon þe west syde hys londe of Cnoll, & hyt strecchyt[h] hyt-selfe fro þe sowþe syde of þe horscrofte towarde þe norþe vn-to an angle or a corner of Tudenhull: to be holde & to be had to hem, with|oute ony a-geynyste seynge of men or women, in-to fre quiet & perpetuel almus: & þat more certeyn truste myht be gyf & had [folio XXIb(32b)] to thys gyft graunt & confirmacion, he put to thys wiytynge hys seele: and is with-oute date.
