of hym or of his heires, So that nother he, his heires, ne none in ther name, in the forsaid xxix. acris of lond, or in ony other tenementis or rentes the which the forsaid abbesse and couent held in the townys of Myldecombe and Bloxham, myght not axe nother chalange in the tyme to come no thyng of right or clayme here-after. Into witnesse, & cetera. The date at Oxen|ford, the friday next aftir the fest of seyntis Fabian and Sebastian, the fyfte yere of the reigne of kyng Edward the sone of kyng Edward.
[NOTE.—The clue to the locality of this property is given by pope Nicholas IV's Taxatio Ecclesiastica, 1291, where Godstow is put down as receiving a ' portion ' to the amount of 18s. from 'Abberbury in Deddington rural deanery.' This is confirmed by the witnesses (p. 361, note). At the dissolution, 1540, the incomes from Milton and South Newnton are put together, as both being in Dadyngton (Deddington) rural deanery. The joint sum (Monast. iv. 373) amounted to 17s. 2d., out of which a quit-rent 6d. was paid to the bailiff of Bloxham hundred 'for a messuage in Milton.']
About 1260? Grant to Alice of Middelton, by Ralph son of Richard, of 4 acres, quit-rent, 1d. yearly: and con|firmation by Ralph son of Richard, of his father's gift to her, viz. of 2 acres and 2 houses.
[folio 91b] THE sentence of this charter is, that Raaf fitȝ Richard of Middelton yaf & cetera to Alice his sustir, for her seruyce, iiij. acris of arable lond in the felde of Middelton, of the which ij. lieth in the Est feld and ben I-called the Revelond, beside the lond of Richard fitȝ Osbert, and ij. lien in the westfelde, j. acre vpon Endewelle and half j. acre vpon Grenebergh and another half acre vpon the wey of Appellow: to be hold and to be had, of hym and his heires or assignes, frely quyetly fully holy and pesibly, to her, and to her heires, or to whom-so-euer she wold assigne, by right heritage for euer, yeldyng therof yerely to hym and to his heires j. d. at Estir for all seruyce exaccion and demaunde. Also the forsaid Raaf confermed the yifte of Richard his fadir that he made to the forsaid Alice his sustir of ij. howsis with her gardyns in the towne of Middelton and ij. acris of arable lond in the forsaid feldis of the same
