S 1097

A.D. 1042 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that Regenbald his priest is to have judicial and financial rights over his land and over his men, as fully and completely as any of his predecessors in the days of King Cnut. English.

Archive: Cirencester

MSS: Lady Vestey, Stowell Park, Northleach, Registrum A, p. 26 (s. xiii)

Printed: Harmer, Writs, no. 44 (p. 214), with translation; Ross, Cirencester Cart., p. 19.

Translated: Douglas and Greenaway, EHD II, no. 34 (p. 461).

Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 211-13, 461, authentic; Finberg, ECWM, no. 169, authentic; Douglas and Greenaway, EHD II, p. 461; Keynes 1988, for the beneficiary; Keynes 1997, p. 240 n.

Edward king gret mine bissopes and mine eorles 7 mine schyrreuen 7 alle mine þeigenes on þam schyren þær Reinbold min Preost hæfeð lond 7 men inne freondliche. 7 ic cuþe eow þæt ic wolle þæt he beo his saca wurð 7 his socnes ofer his lond 7 ofer his men 7 tolnes wrth 7 theames 7 infangeneþeofes eægþar ge binne buruh ge buten swa full 7 swa forð swa ænig his forgengena toforen him formest weren on Cnutes kinges daie 7 þæt his wite beo eall swa muchell swa þæt leodbiscopes æt ællan þingan. 7 ic nelle nenne man geþauian þæt him from hond teo ænig þære þinga þæs þe ic him geunne habbe.