S 1149
A.D. 1051 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring to the authorities of London that he has granted to St Peter of Westminster 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, 110v-111r (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 96r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 861 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 300 (no. 29) ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 23 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 105 (p. 370) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 332-4, 523, very dubious but probably contains authentic material; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 372, on port-reeve; Gelling, ECTV, no. 254, spurious.
Edward king gret Willem biscop 7 Leofstan 7 Alfsi porterefen 7 ealle mine burgþeygnes on Londone freondlice. 7 ic kyðe eow þæt ic habbe geunnen Sancte Petre þam halegen apostle in to Westmunstre fulne fridom ofer ealle þa land þe lagon in to þene halgan stowe gefe se þe hi gefe 7 þar mide saca 7 socna, toll 7 team 7 infangeneþeof flymene fyrmðe 7 gryðbrice 7 hamsocne 7 foresteall 7 miskenninge 7 sceawinge 7 alle oþere richte inne tid 7 ut of/ tid, binnan burch 7 buten burch, on strete 7 of strete swa full 7 swa forð swa hi me sulfen formest an honden stodon. 7 gif eni man wille þa halegan stowe heonen forð mid lande 7 mid loge godian icc ann ealswa þæt hit/ sig staþelfast. 7 ic nelle geþafian þæt enig/ mann habbe enigne onsting ofer his land ne ofer his menn ne be strandde ne be lannde buton se abbot 7 þa gebroðera/ to þas munstres neode. 7 se þe þeas munstres fridom 7 þas halges wurðscipe ofer þis geeacnie geeacnie God his lif on þissere worlde 7 þonne he heonon faren scule God him selle ece myrhðe on heofnanrice. 7 se þe þes hallges wrðscipe 7 þes munstres fridom 7 þene broðru note gewani/ God 7 Godes moder gewani/ his dawes her on werlde 7 þanne he heonen faren scule se is woniinge on helle grunde buton he hit þe stiðliker/ with God gebete, Amen.