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S 457

Rhyming English version of S 456. English

Archive:

Ripon

MSS:

London, Public Record Office, DL 41/6/1(s. xiii; Fowler 1881 facing p. 90)
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 160 (S.C. 5101), f. 250r(s. xvii)

Printed:

Witty 1921, p. 39; Fowler 1881, pp. 90-3; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 133 (no. 5); Mon. Angl., i. 172-3; Thorpe, pp. 182-3; Woodman, Northern Houses, p. 260-261, Transcription of the Middle English text of the charter; K, 360; Earle, pp. 438-9; B, 647, ex Mon. Angl, 859, ex MS 1

Translated:

Woodman, Northern Houses, p. 261-262, Translation from Middle English into Modern English of the charter's text

Comments:

Woodman, Northern Houses, p. 18, Charter from the Ripon archive that is clearly spurious and possibly modeled on S 451, p. 197, Charter from Ripon with many similarities to S 451, suggesting connection between Ripon and Beverley, p. 244, Spurious charter from Ripon archive likely concocted to emphasize connection with Aethelstan and assert their contentious property claims, p. 250-251, Discussion of this charter's likely postdating 1139 and possibly originating out Ripon's need to defend itself during a 1228 trial, p. 252-253, Discussion of the manuscripts in which this charter is presently found, p. 262-265, Discussion of docuement as a clearly spurious, rhyming charter written in Middle English which contains much the same information as was recorded in S 456, the difficulties in translating its text, and the importance of this document to Ripon in the Late Middle Ages; Faith 1997, p. 38; Keynes 1986, p. 90, spurious

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    • Wyt all that es and es gan ˝at ik king Adelstan As gyven als frelich as I may And to ˇe capitell of seint Wilfrai, Of my free devotion ˝air pees at Rippon On ilke side ˇe kyrke a mile, For all ill deedes and ilke agyle, And within ˇair kirke yate At ˇe stan ˇat Grithstole hate. Within ˇe kirke dore and ˇe quare ˝air have pees for les and mare. Ilkan of ˇis stedes sal have pees Of frodmortell and il deedes ˝at ˇair don is, tol [and] tem, With iren and with water deme And ˇat ˇe land of seint Wilfrai Of alkyn geld fre sal be ay. At na nan at langes me to In ˇair Herpsac sal have at do; And for ik will at ya be save I will at ˇai alkyn freedom have; And in al thinges be als free As hert may thynke or eygh may se At te power of a kynge Masts make free any thynge. And my seale have I sett ˇerto For I will at na man it undo.