S 1113
A.D. 1061 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that Bishop Giso is to discharge the obligations on his land at Chew, Somerset, now at the same rate as his predecessor had done. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Wells
MSS: Wells, Liber Albus I, 17v-18r (s. xiii; both versions)
Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., pp. 162-3; K 836; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 287 (no. 9); Harmer, Writs, no. 66 (p. 280), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 272-3, 488, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 537, authentic; Keynes 1988, p. 216 n. 183, on formulation, cf. S 987; Crosby 1994, pp. 48-50, on background; Keynes 1997, pp. 229, 255, on background.
Edward king gret Harold erl/ 7 Ægelnoð abbot 7 Godwyne scyregerefan 7 alle mine þegenas on Sumerseten freondliche. 7 ic cyðe eow þæt ic wylle þæt Giso biscop weryge nu his land æt Chyw æl swo hys foregenga ætforen hym ær dyde. 7 ic nelle geþafian þat man hym anige unlage beode.