son, Reginald, sold his Knighton property to St. Frideswyde's priory (Wigram's Cartulary of St. Frideswide, 1896, ii. 297-306). The Rev. H. Salter has shown me that Mr. Wigram, following Dugdale, has assigned the sale to the great Reginald (died 1166), whereas the conveyance is dated 'in die Translacionis B. Thome Martiris,' and cannot therefore be earlier than 1224. In 1286, in an exchange of rent-charges over each other's property, Godstow (no. 509) gave up this Knighton rent-charge to St. Frideswyde's priory. The service for the founder's father was provided for by transferring the obligation to Godstow property in North Oxford, where, at the dissolution in 1540, we find this 6s. 8d. still charged (Monasticon, iv. 370). When, some 150 years later, the compiler of the Latin Register transcribed the deeds about the obit, he could not make out the locality. He had recourse to two subterfuges. Two deeds (nos. 17 and 18), owing to the founder's name, he attached to St. Valerie donations elsewhere. A third (no. 16) he put into his un|identified set at the end, under Cniscetuna (for Cnigtetuna). In the general charters he has even wandered into Cumberton.]
About 1200. Grant to Godstow, by Wido of St. Valerie, of a rent|charge of 6s. 8d.
THE sentence of this charter is, that Wydo of seint Walerye, for his soule and for his fadir and modir and brother sowles, yaf and graunted half a marke, to god & cetera and to the holy mynchons of Godestow there seruyng god, in-to perpetuel almesse, in cniscetun every yere in the anniuersarye of his fadir aforsaid. These beyng witnesse, & cetera.
About 1200. Duplicate of pre|ceding. Obit for Wido's father, on Sept. 1.
THE sentence of thys dede is that Wydo of seint walery, by the consent of hys wyfe Aubreche ['Albredra' in Latin.] and Reynald hys heyr, hath Ȝyf & grauntyd to the Mynchyns [folio III(15)] of Godstowe, in perpetual almys, half a mark of syluyr euyry yere, to be take in the obit of hys fadur, at the fest of seynt Geyle, of the land that Gerard hath hold: thys wytnesith Thomas, Chapeleyn of Godstowe, & many othyr with-in rehersyd; & is with-out date.
About 1200. Confirma|tion to God|stow, by Reginald of St. Valerie, of no. 16.
THYS is a confirmacion of Reynold of seynt walery of the yft of Guido a-boue seyd, of the seyd halfe marce, as it is a-boue rehersyd in the next dede a-fore: theyes wytnes, & cetera. And is with-out date.
