S 1091
A.D. 1042 x 1050. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to the brethren of St Augustine's (Canterbury) judicial and financial rights over their own men, and over as many thegns as he has granted them to have. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Canterbury, St Augustine's
MSS: English
1. Canterbury, D. & C., Chart. Ant. F. 47 (s. xv)
2. PRO Chart. Ant. R. 9, no. 12 (s. xiii)
3. PRO E 132/1, no. 2, m. 12 (s. xiii)
4. PRO Ch.R. 8 Hen. IV, m. 6
5. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI, pt 3, m. 5 (art. 12)
6. PRO Pat. R. 4 Edw. IV, pt 4, m. 29 (art. 11)Latin
7. Canterbury, D. & C., Chart. Ant. F. 47 (s. xv)
8. Canterbury, D. & C., Lit. E. 19, 94r (s, xiv; incomplete)
9. BL Cotton Claud. D. x, 57r (s. xiii)
10. BL Cotton Jul. D. ii, 87r (s. xiii)
11. London, Lambeth Palace, 419, 122v (s. xiv; incomplete)
12. PRO E 164/27, 147v-148r (s. xiii)
13. Bodleian, James 22, p. 108 (s. xvii; incomplete)
Printed: Somner 1726, pp. 206-7 ex MS 11; K 831 ex MS 2*; K 902 ex MS 9; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 139 (no. 37) ex MS 9; Thorpe, p. 420 ex MS 9; Essays, pp. 46-7 ex MS 9; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 55; Harmer, Writs, no. 38 (p. 199) ex MSS 5, 9, with translation; Kelly, St Augustine's, no. 35.
Comments: Essays, pp. 47-8; Harmer, Writs, pp. 197, 457, authentic; Keynes 1988, p. 216 n. 183; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 128-9, English version may be authentic; Wormald 1996, p. 123.
+ Eadward king gret Eadsige arceb' 7 Godwine eorl 7 ealle mine þegnas on Kent frendlice 7 ic kyðe eow þæt ic hæbbe geunnen sce Augustine 7 þam gebroðran þe þær to hyrað þæt hi beon heora saca wurðe 7 heore socna 7 griðbrices 7 hamsocne 7 forstealles 7 infangenes þiofes 7 flymæne fyrmðe ofer heore agene menn binnan burh 7 butan tolles 7 teames on strande 7 on streame 7 ofer swa feole þegna swa ic hiom habba to gelæten 7 ic nelle þæt æni mann æni þing þær on teo buton heom 7 heore wicneres þe hi hit betæcen willan for þam ic habbe forgefen sce Augustine þas gerihte minre sawle to alesednysse swa full 7 swa forð swa hie hit fyrmest hæfden on Cnudes dægge cinges 7 ic nelle geþafyan þæt æni mann þis abrece be minan freondscipe. God eow gehealde.
Ego Ædwardus Dei gratia rex Anglorum Eadsio archiepiscopo et Godwino comiti et omnibus suis baronibus Cantie salutem. Sciatis me dedisse Deo ac sancto Augustino et fratribus ut habeant eorum saca et socna et pacis fracturam et pugnam in domo factam et uie assaltus et latrones in terra sua captos latronumque susceptionem uel pastionem super eorum proprios homines, infra ciuitatem et extra, theloneumque suum in terra et in aqua atque consuetudinem que dicitur teames, et super omnes allodiarios quos eis habeo datos. Nec uolo consentire ut aliquis in aliqua re de iis se intermittat, nisi eorum prepositi quibus ipsi hec commendauerint, quia habeo has consuetudines Deo datas et sancto Augustino pro redemptione anime mee ita pleniter et libere, sicut melius habuerunt tempore predecessoris mei Knuti regis. Et nolo consentire ut aliquis hec infringat sicuti meam amicitiam uult habere.