[NOTE.—This grant is later than pope Celestine III's confirmation, 1192, no. 902. In pope Nicholas IV's Taxatio Ecclesiastica, 1291, Godstow's Minster rent in Witney deanery was valued at £1 5s. At the dissolution, 1540, the holding is described (Monast. iv. 372) as a close and a yardland, worth 12s. yearly.]
About 1215. Grant to Godstow, by John Lovel, of a serf and his yard|land.
JOHN LUUELL gave Godstow, for the welfare of his soul and the souls of his ancestors, William Long with his sequela [i. e. his family.] , residing at Ministria viz. beyond the water, and that virgate of land and all its pertinents which the said William Long held, into free alms, free of all services.
Witnesses:—Robert of Brinton, canon of Salisbury; Otwell of Esthal [Asthall, Oxon.] ; Robert of Middelton, &c.
[[NOTE.—Rev. H. Salter points out to me that Robert de Brimton is given by Jones in his Fasti Eccles. Sar., as canon, and alive in 1214 and 1222. The spelling in the Godstow deed is Brinton.]]About 1240? Grant to Margaret Jooas, by her father Ralph, of a messuage and a yard|land. Quit-rent, 1 lb. of cummin.
THE sentence of this charter is, that Raaf Iooas yaf, graunted, and by his present charter confermed, to Margarete his doughtir, for her trowthe and service, and with the wille and graunte of Raaf his sone and heire, a yerde-lond in Newnton, with a mese, and with all his pertynentis, [that], that is for to sey, which Geffrey Fraunceys held: To be hold, of hym and his heires, [by] her and her heires, frely and quyetly, in medis and pasturis, in weyes and pathes, and in all maner of libertees to the forseid lond perteynyng, for all maner of services to hym perteynyng for a pounde of Comyne yerely to be paid at Estir, Savyng the kyngis service. These beyng witnesse: Otuere of the Ile, Richard of Avmery, Geffrey the sone of Ely, Raaf of Aumery, Robert of Orton, Martyne of Blechyndon, Henry the sone of william of Orton, And many other.
