S 1145
A.D. 1042 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Westminster Abbey, Pershore, Worcs., and Deerhurst, Gloucs., and invokes a blessing on every man who shall be loyal to the holy monastery. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. XV (s. xii; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 14)
2. BL Add. 4558, 139r (s. xviii)
3. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 278r (s. xiv)
Printed: Birch 1874, p. 147; Harmer, Writs, no. 101 (pp. 365-6) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 331-2, 520-1, may be altered and enlarged version of an original writ; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, pp. xxi, p. xxiii, forged; Finberg, ECWM, no. 182 (pp. 78, 132), possibly a copy of S 1143, enlarged and altered at Westminster; Hooke 1990, p. 340.
Eadweard cyngc gret wel mine byscopes 7 abbedes 7 ealle mine þegenes on Wigerceastrescire 7 on Gleawcestrescire freondlice. 7 ic kyþe eow þæt ic habbe gegyfen Criste 7 Sancte Petre into Westmynstre þa land Perscoran 7 Deorhyrsta 7 eall þæt þær to herð mid saca 7 mid socna, mid tolle 7 mid teame, on stræte 7 of stræte, on wude 7 on felde 7 on eallan þingan swa ful 7 swa forþ swa hit me sylfan fyrþmest on handa stod. 7 ic nelle þæt þær æni mann ænig onstyngc habbe butan se abbod 7 þa gebroðra to Sancte Petres niode. 7 Godes bletsunga syo mid ælc þara manna þe seo hold into þam halgan mynstre.