S 992

A.D. 1033 x 1035. Writ of King Cnut declaring that his priests in St Paul's minster shall be entitled to judicial and financial rights as fully and completely in all things as ever they had them in any king's day. English

Archive:

London, St Paul's

MSS:

1. London, St Paul's DC., Liber B, f. 20v (s. xiii; lost)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., iii. 304, ex MS; Dugdale, St Paul's, p. 190, ex MS; Dugdale, St Paul's, Appendix, p. 13; K, 1319; Thorpe, p. 319; Harmer, Writs, no. 53, ex Dugdale

Comments:

Adams 1876, p. 44, evident forgery; Harmer, Writs, pp. 239-40, 468-9, authenticity uncertain, may have been tampered with; Gelling, ECTV, no. 236, authentic basis; Nightingale 1987, p. 565; Lawson 1993, pp. 66 n. 29, 155, 163 n. 10, doubtful authenticity; Crosby 1994, pp. 313-14

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    • Ic Cnud cyng grete mine biscopes 7 mine eorles 7 ealle mine þegenas on ðan sciran ðær mine preostas on S. Paules mynstre habbað land inne freondlice, 7 ic ciþe eow þæt ic wylle þæt hig beon heora sace here 7 socna weorðe, tolles 7 teames, binnan tid 7 buton tid, 7 swa full 7 swa forþ swa hig hæfdon on æniges cynges deage fyrmest on ællan ðingan, binnan burh 7 butan, 7 ic nelle geþafian þæt nan man æt ænigum þingan heom misbeode, 7 þyses is to gewitnesse: Ægelnoð arcebiscop 7 Ælfric arcebiscop 7 Ælwi biscop 7 Ælfwine biscop 7 Duduce biscop 7 Godwine eorl 7 Leofric eorl 7 Osgod <Clape> 7 Thored 7 oþre genoge. God hine aweorge þe þis awænde.
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    • I, King Cnut, send friendly greetings to my bishops and my earls and all my thegns in the shires where my priests in St Paul’s minster have land, and I inform you that it is my will that they be entitled to their sake and their soke, and to toll and team, in <festive season> and outside it, (and) as fully and completely as they had in the days of any king, in all things, within the burh and without, and I forbid any man to do then wrong in any thing. These are the witnesses: Archbishop Æthelnoth and Archbishop Ælfric and Bishop Ælfwig and Bishop Ælfwine and Bishop Duduc and Earl Godwine and Earl Leofric and Osgod <Clapa> and Thored and many others. May God curse him who shall alter this.
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    • Ic Cnud cyng grete mine biscopes 7 mine eorles 7 ealle mine ˇegenas on ∂an sciran ∂ær mine preostas on S. Paules mynstre habba∂ land inne freondlice, 7 ic ciˇe eow ˇæt ic wylle ˇæt hig beon heora sace here 7 socna weor∂e, tolles 7 teames, binnan tid 7 buton tid, 7 swa full 7 swa forˇ swa hig hæfdon on æniges cynges deage fyrmest on ællan ∂ingan, binnan burh 7 butan, 7 ic nelle geˇafian ˇæt nan man æt ænigum ˇingan heom misbeode. ˝yses is to gewitnesse: Ægelno∂ arcebiscop 7 Ælfric arcebiscope 7 Ælwi biscop 7 Ælfwine biscop 7 Duduce biscop 7 Godwine eorl 7 Leofric eorl 7 Osgod Clape 7 Thored 7 oˇre genoge. God hine aweorge ˇe ˇis awænde.