S 1127
A.D. 1042 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to St Peter of Westminster judicial and financial rights as fully and as completely as he himself possessed them. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 111v (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 46r (s. xiv)
Printed: Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 300 (no. 31) ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 26; Harmer, Writs, no. 83 (p. 349) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 318-19, 506, possibly copy of authentic writ, if S 1126 is accepted there is no reason for rejecting S 1127; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, probably authentic; Gelling, ECTV, no. 250, citing Harmer, probably authentic.
Edward kincg gret wel mine biscopes 7 mine eorles 7 ealle mine þeignes on þan sciren þar/ Seinte Petre into Westminstre haueð land inne 7 men frendlice. 7 ic kiþe eow þat ic habbe gegifen him sace 7 socne, toll 7 theam, infangeneþeof 7 flemenesfirmth, grithbrice/ 7 hamsocne 7 foresteal inne tid 7 ut of tid, on stræte 7 of stræte binnan burh 7 butan swa ful 7 swa forð swa hit me silfan on handa stod. 7 ic nelle geþafian þat anig man anig onsting habbe ofer his land ne ofer his men be strande ne be lande butan se abbod to þæs minstres neode. God eow ealle gehealde, Amen.