[NOTE.—Godstow's interest in this county came from a grant at the foundation (no. 4) in 1138/9, at Halso or Halse, and was increased by rent-charges in Brackley before Henry II's third charter (no. 886) in 1182. Further purchases were made at Brackley and Evenley early in the thirteenth century. In pope Nicholas IV's Taxatio Ecclesiastica, 1291, Godstow was reckoned to have land in Halso and Brackley worth £3 18s. 6d., and tithes to the value of £3 9s. 8d. In 1540, at the dissolution (Monast. iv. 376), there is no mention of Brackley or of Evenley, and Godstow is set down as receiving out of 'Halse manor (late lord Lovell, now lord Derby)' only £2. The rent-charge of £5 (at Bozeat) was, in 1540, still paid to Godstow by St. James's Abbey, Northampton.]
1222, Sept. Grant to Godstow, by Ralph Harange, a justiciary under king John, with con|sent of his son Ralph, a cleric, of a mes|suage, vineyard, dove-house, lands and manorial rights over freeholds and over bondmen tenants, quit-rent, 1 lb. of pepper, to be a pittance in the kitchen of God|stow.
THE sentence of this charter is, that Raaf Harange, yaf, graunted, and by his present charter confermed, to god and to our lady Seynt Marie and to seynt Iohn Paptist of Godestowe and to the mynchons ther servyng god, for the helthe of his lordis soule kyng henry sone of kyng Iohn, and for the helthe of his owne soule and of Isabelle his wyf, and for the soule of his lord kyng Iohn, and for the soules of all his auncetours, and for the helthe of Raaf his sone and heire and Alice his wyf, and for the helthe of all his heires, with the consent of the same Raaf his sone and heire, all his lond which he had in the towne of Bosegate of the yifte of Robert Bluet, that is for to sey, a Chief mesuage, a vyne-yerde, a gardeyne, a Culuerhous, and v. yerdis of lond, with all the pertynentis, that is to sey, with homagis and service of william the sone of Raaf of Posegate, and with all the bondmen of the same lond holdyng and with all theire sequele: To have and to holde, to the forsaid Mynchons, of hym and of his heires, in fre pure and perpetuel almes, with londis, medis, lesues, and pastures, with wodes and
