S 1150
A.D. 1065 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to St Peter of Westminster at the dedication of the church full freedom upon all the lands belonging to the abbey with judicial and financial rights as fully and completely as he himself possessed them. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 111v-112r (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 96r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 857; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 300 (no. 32); Harmer, Writs, no. 106 (pp. 371-2) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 332-4, 523, dubious but probably contains authentic material; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 372, on port-reeve; Gelling, ECTV, no. 256, spurious.
Edward king gret/ Willem biscop 7 Leofstan 7 Ealfsi porterefen 7 alle mine burchþeignes on Londone freondlice. 7 icc kiþe eou þat ic habbe geunnen/ Sancte Petre into Westmunstre at þar kirkhaleginge fulne fridom ofer alle þe land þe lage into þare halagen stowe geafe se ðe his geafe 7 þar mide saka 7 socna, toll 7 team, infangeneþef flimenesfirmðe 7 grithbrice/ 7 hamsocne 7 forestal 7 miskenninge 7 sceawinge 7 alle oðere richte in tid 7 ut of tid binnen burh 7 butan burh, on strate 7 offe strate swa full 7 swa forð swa hi me sulven firmest on hande stodan. 7 gif ani mann hennen forð wille þa halegen stowe mid land 7 mid loge godian icc ann alswa þæt hit si staðelfast. 7 icc nelle geþafian þæt eni mann habbe ani onsting ofer his land ne ofer his men ne be strande ne be lande ne þat ani man þas mundbirdnesse tobreke. God eow gehealde, Amen.