S 1103
1042 x 1044. Writ of King Edward declaring that his men in the gild of English cnihtas are to have their sake and soke within borough and without over their land and over their men, and as good laws as they had in the days of King Edgar and of the king's father and of Cnut. English.
Archive: London, the English Cnihtengild
MSS: 1. Glasgow, U.L., Hunter U. 2. 6, 149r (s. xv)
2. London, Corporation of London Records Office, Letter Book C, 134v (s. xv)
3. London, Corporation of London, Records Office, Liber Dunthorne, 79r (s. xv)
Printed: Coote 1881, p. 481 n., with translation pp. 480-1; Sharpe 1901, p. 218; Ballard 1913, p. 127; Harmer, Writs, no. 51 (pp. 234-5) ex MS 1, with translation.
Translated: Brooke and Keir 1975, pp. 96-7; Douglas and Greenaway, EHD II, no. 273 (p. 1015).
Comments: Page 9123, pp. 135-6, 154-5; Stenton 1932, p. 135 n. 1; Harmer, Writs, pp. 231-4, 466-8; Stenton 1970, pp. 32-3; Brooke and Keir 1975, pp. 96-8, 368, genuine, p. 371, on port-reeve; Douglas and Greenaway, EHD II, p. 1015; Haslam 1988; Keynes 1988, p. 216 n. 183; Brooke 1989, p. 34.
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