S 945
A.D. 978 x 1016. Writ of King Æthelred declaring that his priests in St Paul's minster are to have their sake and soke within borough and without, and as good laws as ever they had in the days of any king or bishop. English.
Archive: London, St Paul's
MSS: Bodleian, James 23, p. 32 (s. xvii)
Printed: Gibbs 1939, p. 2; Harmer, Writs, no. 52.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 235-7, 468, authenticity uncertain; Barraclough 1954, p. 197 and n. 23, genuine; Chaplais 1966/1, p. 171, dubious but no decisive argument against authenticity, may be abbreviated version of a writ of S 1104 (= 1973, p. 56); Gelling, ECTV, no. 234, probably spurious.
Æþelred kinc grete mine [biscopes] 7 mine eorles 7 ealla mine þeinas of þam sciram þær mine preostas on Pales mynstre habbað land inne freondlice 7 ic cyþe eow 7 ic wille þæt hig beon heora saca 7 socna weorða æiþer ge binnan burh 7 butan 7 swa godera laga wyrþe nu swa ful 7 swa forð swa hig betste wæron on æniges kinges dæge oþþe on æniges [biscopes] on eallum þingan.