S 1163
A.D. 1066. Writ of King Harold declaring that Bishop Giso is to have judicial and financial rights as fully and completely as ever he did in King Edward's time. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Wells
MSS: 1. Wells, D. & C., Liber Albus I, 14r (s. xiii; English)
2. Wells, D. & C., Liber Albus I, 14v (s. xiii; Latin)
Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 162; K 976; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 287 (no. 8); Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 95; Harmer, Writs, no. 71 (pp. 284-5), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 275-7, 490-1, authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 581, cited; HRH, p. 236, authentic; Keynes 1988, p. 217, cited; Keynes 1997, pp. 239-40, 258, compares formulation with that of S 1111, 1112.
Harold king greet Ayllnoð abbot 7 Touid 7 alle mine þeynes on Sumerseten frendliche. And ich cweð eou þæt ich wille þæt Gyso biscop beo his saca werð 7 his socna ofer his lond 7 ouer his mannen 7 tolles werð 7 temes 7 infangenes þefes, binna burekh 7 butan swo ful 7 swo forth swo he furmest was on Edward kinges dage on alle þingan. And ich bidde eou alle þæt ge bien hym on fultume at þys cristendome Godes yerichtten for to setten 7 to driuen loc war hym ned sy 7 heo eowres fultumes bithurfe swo swo ich yetruwan to ew habbe þæt ye wyllan for mina luuen. And ich nelle yeþefien þæt man him æt anie þingan anye unlag beode.