S 978
A.D. 1016 x 1035. King Cnut to Ælfwine, bishop of London; confirmation of the lands of St Paul's. Latin.
Archive: London, St Paul's
MSS: 1. London, Guildhall, 25501, 39r (s. xiii)
2. London, Guildhall, 25504, 8rv (s. xii)
3. London, St Paul's, D. & C., 'Liber B', 20v (s. xii; lost)
Printed: Dugdale, St Paul's, p. 188; Mon. Angl., iii. 303-4; Dugdale, St Paul's (2nd edn), Appendix, pp. 12-13; K 1320.
Comments: Gelling, ECTV, no. 235, spurious; Keynes 1994/1, probably spurious.
B. London, Guildhall, 25504 (formerly St Paul's D. & C., WD 4 ('Liber L ')), 12rv: copy, s. xii
Rubric: Priuliegium Cnudi regis.
In nomine Domini Dei saluatoris nostri Iesu Christi. Ego Cnudus Anglorum rex concedo tibi Ælfwio episcopo pro mee anime remedio, sciens michi in futuro prodesse seculo quicquid in presenti uita largitus fuero, omnes terras iuris mei uel antecessorum meorum ad augmentum monasterii beati Pauli apostoli gentium doctoris quod positum est in ciuitate Lundonie, omnes has terras consentiens confirmaui, testantibus episcopis et comitibus et istius terre principibus. Si quis uero harum terrarum condonationem contradicere presumpserit, a paradisiaco consortio exul existat. Amen.