comon counseil of his Reame that hit shold not be lawfull to Religious peple to entre the fee of ony [Read 'him' for 'ony.'] or of other, so that hit shold come into morte-mayne, without his licence and of the chief lord of the which hit was I-hold inmediatly, Nathelesse, by a fyne the which his welbeloued in crist the abbesse of Gode|stowe made with hym in his Chauncellarye, he graunted and yaf licence al so moche as was in hym to Nicholas Walrande of Bluntesdon that he myght yeve and assigne to the forsaid abbesse and mynchons that they myght resceive and hold the forsaid mese of the forsaid Nicholas, as hit is I-seid afore, by the tenoure of this present writyng. Also he yaf to them speciall licence, not willynge that the forsaid Nicholas or his heires, or the forsaid abbesse and mynchons or ther succes|sours, by cause of the forsaid statute, shold be occasioned or greved in ony thyngis, Savyng nathelesse seruyce therof dew and I-wonyd to the chief lordes of that fee. Into witnesse of the which thynge, he made to be made these his lettres patentis, hym-self beyng witnesse, at westmynster, the viij. day of Marche, The xxxj. yere of his reigne.
[[NOTE.—A conjecture may be hazarded as to the source from which the money for the preceding purchase came, and the purpose to which the income so secured was to be applied. At the dissolution, in 1540, we find (Monast. iv. 370) Godstow lands charged with £1 5s. yearly to provide a pittance on the anniversary of Ela (de Longespée), countess of Warwick, and also with £7 7s. to be spent in almsgiving and in the salaries of two chaplains to say mass in Godstow chapel for the same countess. There is nowhere any mention of endowment supplied by her to meet these charges. Since she died in 1297, it is possible that about 1290 she advanced money to provide such endowment, and that 'Middleton Hall' in St. Giles was purchased out of that fund.]]About 1230. Sale to Hugh, son of Richard, of Walton, for £2, by Henry son of Lewis, of meadow, assigned by lot. Quit-rent, 133/4d. Obligation to plough 1 acre, to be afterwards commuted for ½d. yearly.
THE sentence of this Charter is, that henry fitȝ Lewysyj [i. e. Lewisii.] yaf & cetera to hugh fitȝ Richard of Walton, for his seruice and for xl. shillings of siluer the which he yaf to hym afore-handis in warison, tho ij. acris of mede and an half roode, the which
