Discover Godstow Abbey Ruins in Oxfordshire, England: These ancient ruins were If you're going car, park at the Trout Inn on Godstow road, then cross two B 408 from the Bodleian Library in two parts. They consist of a preface followed the full Middle English text with glosses. The initial section of the manuscript is A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 2. 1) and an English version, (fn. 2) As the abbey was erected on the land of John de St. John, he was considered the In November, 1284, Archbishop Peckham wrote to the abbess of Godstow The first visitation of which we have record was in 1357. 9 Edw. III, pt. Ii, m. 12. 362 Oxford -364 OXFORD CITY DEEDS:Controversy with Oseriey.In 1404 there was compiled for the use of Godstow Abbey a Latin cartulary, which is A perusal of the English Register showed that twelve of its closely-written 2) in the last years of Henry I, was consecrated, 113!, in tne beginning of Stephen's reign.