APPENDIX.
No.
From the Original in the
+ GaDtuarD king gvct Mttlfint b. f jjiortljman
srirgrofan. $ iElfcoine ^crcfinnrs statu *
rallc mint tbergnrs on bamtun scire frcnolicc.
I ic fernjc tofo tljjat ic babbe grgtfm <Sristr f see
$3etre into tCTcstminstrc Kotclano t rail tljat
njer to bfrD. into saca. $ mto some, into tolle
anb mto tcame. ana on rallcn tljtngan. siuaftill
anbstoa foitb fra bit mcsilfan on bantia stoa. #nD
it ann rtjat (EaDgttb fro Ijlcfbtgc bit on ban&e
babbe stoa lange stoa beo libbe .... toxvt. rtjat
nmnstcr tljjer of gegooige &on coiu geb.
I.
Archives of the Church.
in modern english.
■\ Edward the king, great Wulfwi
the bishop, and Northman the sheriff, and
TElfVine the son of Merefinne, and all my
officers in Northamptonshire*, friendly.
And I declare to you, that I have given
Christ and St. Peter in Westminster,
Roteland, and all that belongeth thereto,
with a power to try causes, and a fran-
chise, and a right to take toll, and the
offspring of the bondmen, and in all
things so fully and largely as I myself
was possessed of there. And I grant that
the lady Eadgith possess it as long as she
liveth, and J.....that monastery be
endowed with it. God keep you.
No. II.
E Johanis Mabillonii veterum Analcctonii, torn. i. pag. 219.
Wdlelmi Anglorum Regis Epistola ad Johannem Abhatem Fiscamvensem.
W. Rex Anglorum Johanni abbati salutem. Diu mecum cogitavi, mi dilecte, in
cujus manu & custodia possem mittere & commendare abbatiam sancti Petri de West-
monasterio: quia in maxima veneratione & habeo & ex debito habere debeo. Ibi enim
jacet vir beatae memoriae dominus meus rex Ethwardus; ibi etiam tumulata est regina
Etgith uxor ejus inclita: ego etiam ibidem, Dei dementia providente, sceptrum &
coromun totius regni Anglici suscepi. Tandem, consilio Lanfranni archiepiscopi, me-
* Rutland, in the Confessor's time, was a part of Northamptonshire ; not a county of itself.
+.....the original is sullied, and a word or two not to be read.
Vol. I. qq
No.
From the Original in the
+ GaDtuarD king gvct Mttlfint b. f jjiortljman
srirgrofan. $ iElfcoine ^crcfinnrs statu *
rallc mint tbergnrs on bamtun scire frcnolicc.
I ic fernjc tofo tljjat ic babbe grgtfm <Sristr f see
$3etre into tCTcstminstrc Kotclano t rail tljat
njer to bfrD. into saca. $ mto some, into tolle
anb mto tcame. ana on rallcn tljtngan. siuaftill
anbstoa foitb fra bit mcsilfan on bantia stoa. #nD
it ann rtjat (EaDgttb fro Ijlcfbtgc bit on ban&e
babbe stoa lange stoa beo libbe .... toxvt. rtjat
nmnstcr tljjer of gegooige &on coiu geb.
I.
Archives of the Church.
in modern english.
■\ Edward the king, great Wulfwi
the bishop, and Northman the sheriff, and
TElfVine the son of Merefinne, and all my
officers in Northamptonshire*, friendly.
And I declare to you, that I have given
Christ and St. Peter in Westminster,
Roteland, and all that belongeth thereto,
with a power to try causes, and a fran-
chise, and a right to take toll, and the
offspring of the bondmen, and in all
things so fully and largely as I myself
was possessed of there. And I grant that
the lady Eadgith possess it as long as she
liveth, and J.....that monastery be
endowed with it. God keep you.
No. II.
E Johanis Mabillonii veterum Analcctonii, torn. i. pag. 219.
Wdlelmi Anglorum Regis Epistola ad Johannem Abhatem Fiscamvensem.
W. Rex Anglorum Johanni abbati salutem. Diu mecum cogitavi, mi dilecte, in
cujus manu & custodia possem mittere & commendare abbatiam sancti Petri de West-
monasterio: quia in maxima veneratione & habeo & ex debito habere debeo. Ibi enim
jacet vir beatae memoriae dominus meus rex Ethwardus; ibi etiam tumulata est regina
Etgith uxor ejus inclita: ego etiam ibidem, Dei dementia providente, sceptrum &
coromun totius regni Anglici suscepi. Tandem, consilio Lanfranni archiepiscopi, me-
* Rutland, in the Confessor's time, was a part of Northamptonshire ; not a county of itself.
+.....the original is sullied, and a word or two not to be read.
Vol. I. qq