[NOTE.—In the 1291 Taxatio Ecclesiastica of pope Nicholas IV, Godstow lands in Blechesdon are assessed to be worth £1 18s. 2d. yearly. At the dissolution, 1540, Godstow possessed in Bletchingdon copyholds of yearly value £2 13s. 4d. (Monast. iv. 371). The lands lay partly in Bletchingdon and partly in the adjacent parish, Hampton Gay: see pp. 221, 224.]
About 1139. Grant to Godstow, by Robert of Amary, of lands, viz. 14 acres in one field, 18 acres 1 rood in another field; with pas|ture-rights for 4 cows; and with right of cart-way through Perry manor.
THE sentence of thys euidence is, that Robert of Aumery yaf & grauntyd, to god & to the churche of our lady seynt mary & of seynt Iohn baptist of Godstowe, & to the holy mynchons there seruinge god, xxxij. acris of londe & j. yerdlonde with hys hedys, of hys londe in the towne of blechedon, in-to pure & perpetuall almys, for the helthe of hys soule & hys aunceturs, to be hadde holde & to be take in-to possession, frely, restfully, pesybly & worshypfully, with all the eysementes & fredoms longynge to the same londe:
that is to sey, in j. felde, xiiij. acris: that is to sey, at the stywe, half an acre; & a-boue pauenhull, j. acre; & at the wey by churchemanbrygge, half an acre; & at asseke-more, ij. acris; & a-boue litul benehull, j. acre & a halfe; and in the assekemore, half an acre; & at the heede of ladune, a yerd lond; and spelburghe, j. yerd londe; & at the hede of ladune, halfe an acre; & vndur ladune, half an acre; & heyfordelond, half an acre; & in the bradecroft ['Bradcroft—wrought hull—Cotman—nota ij fildes—Ryemead,' in margin, in several lines.] , thre halfe acris; & vppon wordehull ['Bradcroft—wrought hull—Cotman—nota ij fildes—Ryemead,' in margin, in several lines.] , iij. halfe acris; & vppon cotman ['Bradcroft—wrought hull—Cotman—nota ij fildes—Ryemead,' in margin, in several lines.] forlonge, j. acre; & in myrysacre, ij. acris:
& in ['Bradcroft—wrought hull—Cotman—nota ij fildes—Ryemead,' in margin, in several lines.] an othyr felde [In this second field, the items are 3 half-acres short of the total. So also in the Latin.] , xviij. acris & j. yerde: that is to say, vppon sondehull in hutfurlonge, j. acre; and in myddyl furlonge, ij. acris; & chypfen, iij. yerdys; & in the same chypfen by the mere, iij. half acris; & at Mappeldure-stuble, halfe an acre; & chuham, ij. acris; & at hynham, j. acre; & at reuemede ['Bradcroft—wrought hull—Cotman—nota ij fildes—Ryemead,' in margin, in several lines.] , half an acre; & at nordlongelond, j. acre; & in hechefurlonge, half an acre; & at staindelfe, j. acre; and att
