IV. CHARTER OF HENRY THE SECOND

[[MS description from Notes volume:

"Harleian Charter III B. 49, British Museum.... The document is in a

French record hand, and the writer was evidently little versed in the

insular script. He uses both þ and th, [wynn] and w."]]

++H' [þ]urh godes [gh]efu ænglelandes king gret ealle mine

bissceopas [&] ealle mine eorlas [&] ealle mine scirereuan [&] ealle

mine þeinas frencisce [&] englisce · on þan sciran þe teobalt

erceb{isceop} [&] se hiret æt xp{ist}es chyrchen on Cantuarabir[gh]

habbad land inne freondlice [&] ic keþe eow [þ/] ic hebbe heom

geunnon [þ/] hi beon ælc þare lande wurþa {5} þe hi eafdon en

Edwardes kinges de[gh]e · [&] on Willelmes kinges mines furþur

ealdefader · [&] on Henrices kinges mines ealdefader · [&] saca [&]

Socne · on strande [&] on Streame. On wudan · [&] on feldan · tolles

[&] theames · grithbriches · [&] hamsocne · [&] forstalles · [&]

i{n}fangenesthiafes · [&] fleamene frimtha · ofer heore agene men ·

binna{n} Burgan [&] butan · {10} swa ful [&] swa ford swa mine agene

Wicneres hit sechan scolden · [&] ofer swa fele þeinas swa ich heom

to{}leten habban. And ic nelle [þ/] eni{}man enig{}þing þer{}on theo

· butan hi [&] heara wicneras · þe hi hit bitechan · willað · ne

frencisce ne englisce · for þan þi{n}gan þe ich habbe criste þas

gerichtan forgifan minre Saule to ech{er}e alisendnesse [&] ic {15}

nelle geþauian [þ/] enig{}man þis abrece bi minan fullen frenscipan.

God geau gehealde.

[Linenotes:

1. MS kurh || IV. 4. _Cantuarabir[gh]_] last letter _[gh]_ or _g_;

the one has been corrected out of the other: so too in _de[gh]e_,

l. 6. || 14. _þingan_] _þimgan_ MS.]

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