A.D. 1066. Writ of King Harold declaring that Bishop Giso is to have judicial and financial rights as fully and completely as ever he did in King Edward's time. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Wells
MSS: 1. Wells, D. & C., Liber Albus I, 14r (s. xiii; English)
2. Wells, D. & C., Liber Albus I, 14v (s. xiii; Latin)
Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 162; K 976; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 287 (no. 8); Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 95; Harmer, Writs, no. 71 (pp. 284-5), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 275-7, 490-1, authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 581, cited; HRH, p. 236, authentic; Keynes 1988, p. 217, cited; Keynes 1997, pp. 239-40, 258, compares formulation with that of S 1111, 1112.
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