The High Sheriff of Berkshire's chief residences were at Wallingford and Aldermaston. As a sheriff, Godric had the powers of arrest, he could raise armies, collect taxes and levies, and he presided over courts, dealt with traitors and generally supervised on the King's behalf everything that went on in the area of the Kingdom under his jurisdiction. It was recorded that Godric was "a colourful old scoundrel".[2]
^Hudson, John (2007). Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis:The History of the Church of Abingdon, Volume I: The History of the Church of Abingdon. Clarendon Press. p. 201. ISBN9780199299379.