into perpetuel almesse, yeldyng therof by yere xxxiiij. shillings, that is to sey, one half to his Eschekor at Estir and the other half at his Eschekor at the fest of seynt Michell, for all service, custome, and demaunde: So nathelesse that they shold not hegge, wast, nother turne hit into tylthe, nother in no wise close hit but that his bestis myght haue fre goyng out and fre entryng into the forsaid wode as they were I-woned to haue afore. Wherfore he willed and surely charged, for hym and his heires, that the forsaid abbesse and mynchons shold haue and hold the forsaid wode, with his pertynentis, of hym and his heiris, into perpetuel almesse, as hit is I-seid afore. Thise beyng witnesse, & cetera. The date by his hand, at Oxenford, the xxviiti day of Decembre, the fyfty yere of his reigne.
[NOTE.—The Godstow property in this parish was acquired by a series of purchases between 1210 and 1280. In pope Nicholas IV's Taxatio Ecclesiastica, it is joined with the Godstow properties at Begbroke, Kiddington, Ledwell, and Thrup, as in Woodstock rural deanery, and the whole said to be worth £5 3s. 2d., of which £2 18s. 8d. represents pittances charged on the rents. At the dissolution, 1540, the Godstow property in 'Kersynton' (Monast. iv. 372) was valued at £4 for the demesne-land, £1 10s. for quit-rents on freeholds, and £1 13s. 4d. for quit-rents on copyholds, together £7 13s. 4d. The obits for William once keeper, John once baker, and Isold abbess, were still charged on the rents in Kersynton.]
1204, Sept. 29. Sale to Thomas of Chymely, by Peter son of William son of Richard of Karsynton, of a mes|suage and croft, and a yardland. Quit-rent, 1d. Purchase|money, £1 10s.
THE sentence of this evidence is, that Petir fitȝ William fitȝ Richard of karsynton yaf graunted and confermed with his owne charter, in fee and heritage, to Thomas Chymely, or to whom the same Thomas wold assigne selle yeve or bequeth, a mese with a crofte that Alewy held in karsynton; And furthermore a yerd of lond with all his pertynentis that humfrey of haneberge held in the same towne: to be hold and to be had, of hym and of his heires, frely quyetly peasibly and worshipfully, in cornys and medis in fedyngis in wayes in pathes and all other customes longyng to them, by the service of j. d. by the yere for all seruice, that is to sey, at Mighelmasse, savyng the kyngis
