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A.D. 1061 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that Bishop Giso is to discharge the obligations on his land at Chew, Somerset, now at the same rate as his predecessor had done. English and Latin versions

Archive:

Wells

MSS:

1. Wells, DC., Liber Albus I, ff. 2-64, ff. 17v-18r (s. xiii med.; both versions)

Printed:

Hickes, Inst. Gramm., pp. 162-3; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 287 (no. 9); K, 836

Printed and Translated:

Harmer, Writs, no. 66 (p. 280)

Comments:

Crosby 1994, pp. 48-50, on background; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 181, Writ from the archive of Bath and Wells showing that Abbot Aethelnoth of Glastonbury participated in presiding over the Somerset shire court; Kelly, St Paul's, London, p. 203, Reference to this writ of Edward the Confessor connected to episcopal appointments to explain the mention of the bishop of London in S 978; Keynes 1988, p. 216 n. 183, on formulation, cf. S 987; Woodman, Northern Houses, p. 225, Writ with similar terminology to S 1160, suggesting the latter's authenticity; Keynes 1997, pp. 229, 255, on background.; Harmer, Writs, pp. 272-3, 488, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 537, authentic