About 1260. Godstow exchanged property in St. Cle|ment's parish for St. Frides|wyde's pro|perty in Walton and Beaumont: Godstow receiving (a) Simon Balehorn's land, (b) Denise Borewald's land; Godstow giving (a) land in St. Cle|ment's, reserving Boy-mill and right of way to it, (b) part of Wolward's|well near Wolvercot, reserving the tithe. Agreement to submit to arbitration, if the ex|change has to be modi|fied.
THE sentence of this charter [Wigram's Cartulary of St Frideswide, i. 426.] is, that Robert, priour, and the couente of seynt Frideswith of Oxenford, for them and ther successours, graunted, yaf, and confermed with ther writyng, to the chirch of Godestowe and to Emme abbesse and couente of the same place, all ther arable lond, with all his pertynentis, the which they had somtyme of the yifte of Symond Balehorn without the north yate of Oxenford in the feldes of Walton and Bewmount, as hit is departed in the charters the which he made fully to them therof; Also they graunted, to the same abbesse and Couente and to ther chirche aforsaid, all the lond, with his pertynentis, the which they had of the yifte of Denyse Borewold in the feldes aboue I-named, after the tenour of the charter the which she made therof to them,
into an eschaunge of the lond of the said abbesse and couente of Godestowe, the which they had and held with-out the Est yate of Oxenford in seynt Clementis parisshe, savyng to them the wey toward the mylle of Boymylle as goodly and as frely as they had hit in ony tyme; And they filled the defawte of the lond, of ther parte, fully in that tilthe the which is next to the towne of Wolgarecote that is I-called Wolwardeswelle, savyng to them the tilthe [Read 'tithe.'] therof comyng.
Wherfor they willed that the chirch of Godestowe, thabbesse, and Couente of the same place, shold haue and hold for euer, the forsaid londes, with all ther pertynentis, esementis, pastures, and commune, with all fredomes al so moche as longeth to the said londes and that towched them, into eschaunge of ther lond as hit is abouesaid. And the forsaid Priour and Couente and ther chirch warantiȝed the forsaid londes, with all ther per|tynentis, to the forsaid abbesse and Covente and to theire chirch for evere, defended and aquyted ayenst all men, fro
