S 1112
A.D. 1061 x 1065 (? 1061). Writ of King Edward declaring that Bishop Giso is to have the bishopric of Wells and everything lawfully belonging thereto as fully and completely as any of his predecessors. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Wells
MSS: Wells, D. & C., Liber Albus I, 14rv (s. xiii; both versions)
Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 144 (plate), 161; K 838; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 287 (no. 5); Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 46; Harmer, Writs, no. 65 (pp. 278-9), with translation; Councils and Synods, no. 79 (pp. 553-4), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 272, 487-8, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 535, authentic; Councils and Synods, pp. 552-3; Keynes 1988, p. 203, on background; Crosby 1994, pp. 48-50, on background; Keynes 1997, pp. 228-9, 240, 255, on background.
Edward king gret Harold erl/ 7 Aylnod abbot 7 Godwine 7 ealle mine þeynes on Sumerseten frendliche. Ich queþe eou þæt ich wille þæt Gyse bissop beo þisses bissopriches wrthe heer inne mid eou and alch þare þinge þas þe þar mid richte to gebyrað binnan porte 7 butan mid saca 7 mid socna swo uol 7 swo vorð swo hit eni bissop him touoren formest hauede on ealle þing. And ich bidde eou alle þat ge him beon on fultome Cristendom to/ spekene loc whar hit þarf sy 7 eower fultumes beþurfe eal swo ich getrowwen to/ eow habben þat ge him on fultume beon willen. And gif what sy mid unlage out of þan bissopriche geydon sy hit on londe oþer an oððer þinge þat fulstan him vor minan luuen þæt hit in ongeyn cume swo swo ge for Gode witen þat hit richt sy. God eu ealle gehealde.