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Liber A, sive pilosus, Fos. 1–37b, and Additional Charters

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In hoc libro continentur transcripta omnium cartarum cỳrographorum 7 aliorum diuersorum scriptorum inuentorum in thesauro ecclesie sancti Pauli London' anno domini m.cc.xl primo.

1. Writ of Edward the Confessor: he wishes the priests of St. Paul's Church to have their sac and soc within and without the borough, and all such good laws as they are entitled to; he does not wish them to receive into their community any more priests than their estates can bear or they themselves desire, nor will he consent that anyone offend them in any way.

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page 10 note 1 A/69: Robert [sic] bischop of Dunholm. 7c. The bishop is either William (1081–96), who witnesses more frequently than his predecessor, or Walcher (1071–80). This writ, and the next below, No. 3, are ascribed to William I, as during his reign two vacancies of the episcopal see provided occasions for their issue. But No. 2 is perhaps an O.E. version of No. 6, below.

page 11 note 1 A/69 contains also the first words of the English version: Willeam kỳng gret Rauf Bainard 7 Goffregd of Magnavilla.

page 11 note 2 Maurice was nominated bishop of London by William I at Christmas, 1085. William the deacon was the nephew of Bishop William of London, holding land in Essex at the time of the Domesday Survey, but not as a tenant of Bishop Maurice (V.C.H. Essex, Vol. I, p. 418).Google Scholar

page 12 note 1 A/69: Aloỳnes.

page 12 note 2 Ranulf Flambard became bishop of Durham in June 1099.

page 13 note 1 Liber A omits: 7 quiete.

page 13 note 2 Liber A, rubric: Quod canonici sancti Pauli habeant thol 7 theam. 7 infegane peof 7 omnes libertates in suis terris 7 aliis in regno 7 omnia ita libera sicut anima sua in die iudicii; A/69, margin: hec ll°.

page 14 note 1 A/69: baronibus.

page 14 note 2 C.A. 27: Mildelsexie.

page 15 note 1 William II was in Wales in 1095 and 1097, and William Giffard's first witness as chancellor was in 1094. (Davis: Regesta, No. 349.) Ralph de Marcy was an important subtenant of land in Essex, holding of Hamo dapifer and Count Eustace. Ulric is unidentified unless he be Ulric the Lorimer who held land of St. Paul's ultra Fletam (Davis, , in Essays presented to Tout, p. 55).Google Scholar

page 15 note 2 A/69: Vlurico.

page 16 note 1 Robert, bishop of Lincoln, was consecrated 12 Feb. 1094; Robert of Mowbray, earl of Northumberland, rebelled in 1095.

page 17 note 1 See Davis, : Regesta, p. 72.Google Scholar

page 17 note 2 See note to No. 6 above.

page 17 note 3 A/69: Writtle.

page 18 note 1 predecessores perhaps intended.

page 19 note 1 See note to No. 6 above. Sweyn of Essex was sheriff of Essex at this time (of. No. 17). The centre of his honour, Raleigh in Essex, with its castle and much of his fee was in the same hundred as the St. Paul's manor of Barling (V.C.H. Essex, I, pp. 345–6, 484–6).Google Scholar

page 19 note 2 Robert de Bellême was using the title of Count of Ponthieu in 1101.

page 20 note 1 See Farrer, , Itinerary of Henry I, p. 5.Google Scholar

page 20 note 2 Ibid., p. 7.

page 20 note 3 A/69: forgenges.

page 20 note 4 ib: form…

page 20 note 5 ib: mine bropren.

page 21 note 1 The king was at Portsmouth early in July 1108, not returning until after the death of Anselm. Richard de Belmeis' election as bishop of London was on May 28, and his consecration on July 26.

page 22 note 1 The bp. of Salisbury is Roger (1107–39); Nigel d'Aubigny died 21 Nov. 1129.

page 23 note 1 See Farrer, , op. cit., p. 18.Google Scholar

page 23 note 2 Stenton, : Norman London, p. 8Google Scholar note, suggests 1114. But Henry was not at Portsmouth on 13 Aug. 1114.

page 23 note 3 Liber A (2) and Lib. Cust.: Bochalanda.

page 24 note 1 Supplied from Liber A (2) and Lib. Cust.; the latter omits martyris. The writer of Liber A (1) abbreviated with 7 aliis.

page 24 note 2 See Farrer, , op, cit., p. 17.Google Scholar

page 24 note 3 The second copy omits witnesses and dating clause and has variations in spelling: tolmes 7 femes … 7 infangenethef. This note is added: ista carta scribitur hic quia facit mentionem de carta precedenti.

page 24 note 4 comitibus (A/69).

page 24 note 5 add presenti (ib.).

page 24 note 6 Witt regis (ib.).

page 25 note 1 Robert, son of Richard of Clare, probably acquired the lordship of Baynards Castle in or shortly after 1111 (Robinson, J. A.: Gilbert Crispin, p.39). Cf. No. 28 above.Google Scholar

page 25 note 2 A/69; Portesmud’.

page 25 note 3 Apparently issued shortly after Richard de Beimels' election, at the synod in London on May 28, at which the king was present, together with a similar writ in favour of Thomas, archbishop of York. Richard's ordination and consecration followed, June–July 1108. (Farrer, : op. cit., pp. 47–8).Google Scholar

page 26 note 1 The only variation is the addition, after breuia … patris mei, of the two words 7 mea.

page 26 note 2 Aubrey de Vere held office as sheriff in various counties up to 1127 (Morris, : Medieval English Sheriff, p. 82).Google Scholar

page 27 note 1 William de Pont de l'Arche witnesses during these dates (see Farrer: op. cit., passim.).

page 27 note 2 A/69: Fleota.

page 27 note 3 Richard de Lucy's earliest attestation is December 1141 (Round, : Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 146). Stephen came to London after this date in 1143. A probable occasion for issue was the vacancy of the London see in 1152.Google Scholar

page 28 note 1 Cf. the similar writ in the Colchester cartulary (Moore, : Cartularium sancti Iohannis Baptiste, I. 32).Google Scholar

page 29 note 1 B.M. MS. Cotton, Julius C. vii fo. 198r adds: Adam de Belun, Rogero de Fraxin' etc. apud Berching.

page 29 note 2 W. the chancellor is probably William Giffard, but possibly Waldric, who witnesses as such from 1102 to 1106.

page 30 note 1 Roger Bigot died in 1107 (Farrer, : op. cit., p. 41).Google Scholar

page 30 note 2 Geoffrey Ridel witnesses as archdeacon from 1163 to 1174; the king was at Reading in April 1163 (Eyton, : Itinerary of Henry II, p. 61).Google Scholar

page 31 note 1 Henry has no dei gratia in his style. He was at Berkhampstead in December 1163 (Eyton, : op. cit., p. 66).Google Scholar

page 31 note 2 Reginald de S. Valerico does not witness after 1166.

page 32 note 1 Henry has no dei gratia in his style; and the writ is therefore probably before 1172, certainly before the election of Geoffrey Ridel to the see of Ely in 1173. The first levy of scutage following the new assessment, made on the basis of the cartœ of 1166, was in 1168; Henry levied a second scutage in 1171, after his return to England in August of that year. He was in England only until October, and again, after the Irish expedition, from April 21 to May 12, 1272.

page 33 note 1 The early limit is indicated by the accession of Richard to London, the final limit by the date of the deaths of Basset, and of Roger, nepos Huberti (Farrer, : op. cit., p. 117Google Scholar; Round: Geoffrey de Mandeville, pp, 304–9).Google Scholar

page 33 note 2 1162 was probably the date of the transaction itself in the chapter of St. Paul's. The papal confirmation is dated 1 March 1163; but Richard de Belmeis II, a paralytic since 1160, died in 1162. See above, p. xxxiii, and Nos. 192–3, 231, below.

page 34 note 1 Eleanor was regent from August 1157 to 1162, about which time Matthew was her chancellor; Recueil des Actes de Henri II (Ed. Leopold Delisle), I, pp. 171, 405.Google Scholar

page 36 note 1 Rot. Chart.: Teste me ipso apud Waltham. xxv. die, April’.

page 38 note 1 In 1205 John had granted to Bishop William a lease of the manor of Stoke to hold for a yearly payment of a hundred shillings (Rot. Chartarum, p. 147b).Google Scholar

page 39 note 1 Neither this charter nor the preceding one was enrolled.

page 39 note 2 Obliterated.

page 40 note 1 The date of Ralph de Valoignes' death is not known exactly. He last appears in 1109 as witness to a charter of Henry I. The presence of William d'Aubigny the younger would suggest a later date, if Farrer's surmise that he was born c. 1110 is near being correct (Farrer, : Honours and Knights' Fees, III, p. 46Google Scholar; Itinerary of Henry I, p. 54Google Scholar). The possibility that this letter was written by Herbert Losinga is suggested, because d'Aubigny's fee, and Ralph de Valoignes' foundation at Binham, were in Norfolk; but there may have been a scribal error, as Round has suggested. Cf. No. 59.

page 41 note 1 Walter de Coutances was then bishop of Lincoln, 1183–4. The earlier history of the church adds interest to this reference to the plea touching the advowson. Robert de Sigillo, bishop of London, had granted the church of Shoreditch to the priory of Holy Trinity—a grant confirmed by Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury, before 1150. During the episcopate of Richard de Belmeis II, the priory was deprived of their right by a certain layman, Baldwin. L.C.C. Survey of London, Vol. VIII (The Parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch), p. 91.Google Scholar

page 41 note 2 Liber A: Sordig.

page 42 note 1 See royal grant, above, No. 49.

page 42 note 2 A14/1688: Benedicto de Sansetun quern nos in ecclesia beati Pauli London' precentorem instituimus.

page 42 note 3 A14/1687: sancti.

page 42 note 4 ibid: Sohoredich. Sordig’.

page 42 note 5 ibid: add dignum.

page 43 note 1 A 73/1906: Quare.

page 43 note 2 Aubrey de Vere was sheriff of Essex c. 1128; see Round: Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 309Google Scholar. Therefore this act of restitution was probably made towards the end of Richard de Belmeis' episcopate (1127).

page 43 note 3 Liber A: Eduluesnessa.

page 43 note 4 ibid: Clakinton.

page 44 note 1 Ranulf Peverel had died within the episcopate of Bishop Maurice, c. 1090.

page 45 note 1 William of Ockendon was later dapifer (cf. below, No. 274). The other witnesses' names appear on the earliest chapter deeds (from, 1104).

page 45 note 2 A73/1906: karissimi filii.

page 45 note 3 (Ibid.) archidiaconis omitted.

page 45 note 4 (Ibid.) de Britton’.

page 45 note 5 (Ibid.) Wokynton.

page 48 note 1 Gilbert Foliot, who witnesses as a clerk of the bishop, succeeded Diceto as archdeacon of Middlesex, c. 1181.

page 48 note 2 Liber A: patronatus.

page 49 note 1 See below, No. 72.

page 50 note 1 See below, No. 72. The British Museum recently acquired a duplicate of this charter; see note by Dr. Flower in London Topographical Record (1932), Vol. XVI, pp. 78–9.Google Scholar

page 50 note 2 John of St. Laurence had appealed to the Papacy against the grant made by William de Belmeis, his predecessor in the prebend, claiming rights in the church against the dean and chapter. (B.M., Harl. MS. 6956, p. 60.)

page 51 note 1 vicariam seems intended.

page 53 note 1 sic: instantis would be grammatical.

page 53 note 2 The final concord referred to on the charter was given on this date; see below, No. 124. Cf. No. 75.

page 53 note 3 Liber A: etc., to Lund’.

page 53 note 4 Ibid.: Kenesword’.

page 54 note 1 Liber A: benevalete omitted.

page 54 note 2 See above, No. 74 and note.

page 56 note 1 Alard succeeded Ralph de Diceto, c. November 1202 (Stubbs: op. cit., I. lxxxiii). Richard of Bishop's Stortford was superseded as Master of the Schools by Master John of Kent, the chancellor of St. Paul's, before March 1204; see No. 58 above.

page 58 note 1 Peter de Ste. Mere Eglise, who witnesses as treasurer of St. Paul's, died in 1226 (Newcourt, I, p. 103).

page 59 note 1 Liber A: Alexandro de Suereford' archidiacono Salop’. Note the careless rendering of Alexander's name on the extant original charter and its correct form in Liber A. On the original, Salopebir' is written as a correction and is only a possible reading.

page 59 note 2 Ralph was a free tenant of the St. Paul's manor of Ardleigh in 1222 (Hale: Domesday of St. Paul's, p. 21).Google Scholar

page 59 note 3 Probably scribal error for Radwell near Baldock.

page 61 note 1 Peter de Blois, who witnesses, was archdeacon of London from 1202 to 1212 (see Southern, R. W. “Some new letters of Peter of Blois,” English Historical Review, lii, 07 1938, p. 412Google Scholar). The rent was payable in the first place to the chaplain of the church of Lambourne (Berks): Liber L, fo. 56v. Marston is near Potterne.

page 61 note 2 Liber A: Mierston’.

page 61 note 3 Cf. witness list with No. 81 above, and see note.

page 62 note 1 Liber A omits multis.

page 62 note 2 Written above the line. The charter is now lost.

page 62 note 3 These churches had been granted to the abbey by the founders, Geoffrey de Mandeville, Beatrice and Geoffrey de Say and Thomas Picot, of Heydon. Episcopal confirmations of these and other grants of churches start with one by Bishop Gilbert Foliot (cf. B.M., Harl. MS., 3697, fos. 18–24, fos. 39 et seq.).

page 63 note 1 Harl. MS.: inspections.

page 63 note 2 Ibid.: Rikklỳng.

page 64 note 1 Harl. MS.; facienda.

page 64 note 2 Ibid.: Rikeling.

page 64 note 3 Ibid.: Waxtunesham.

page 66 note 1 See above, No. 87. The text given there agrees with the text in this inspeximus except for one or two literal variants. In copying the inspeximus the Liber A scribe abbreviated from Waledene in the clause following the address, to quam.

page 66 note 2 See below, No. 92. note.

page 66 note 3 Liber A: Bocstud.

page 66 note 4 Ibid.: ibidem.

page 67 note 1 Gilbert Foliot, who witnesses, was an archdeacon after 1181; see above. No. 67.

page 67 note 2 Liber A., Eborardi de Bocstud’.

page 67 note 3 One of the charters by William, son of William of Haunville, is dated 10. Ann. Joh. (Cartularium monasterii sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria, II. 360Google Scholar). William, son of Ralph, and William, his son, each issued two charters confirming the gift of the church of Takeley (see op. cit., II, 346, 360, St. Paul's, A 26–40/1388). The Colchester versions vary considerably from those of St. Paul's. The cyrograph referred to in the memorandum is a final concord, still extant as A 26–40/1389 (see Newcourt, , II. 351).Google Scholar

page 68 note 1 Robert, son of Roger, was the nephew of the Robert, son of William, who issued the next charter (see Round: Geoffrey de Mandevitte, Appendix, pp. 399Google Scholar seq.). The latter died probably before 1142; the nephew later confirmed the gift of his uncle in the presence of Henry of Anjou (see charter of Henry II in the Colchester cartulary: op. cit., I. 50). The church of Ardleigh was later attached to St. Paul's manor of Ardleigh; in the survey of Chapter property made by Diceto in 1181, the church is stated to be held in demesne by the canons, and no mention is made of a right or claim of Colchester in it (see Hale: Domesday of St. Paul's, pp. 147–8).Google Scholar

page 69 note 1 See note above.

page 69 note 2 Liber A.: Aerleỳa.

page 70 note 1 William, son of Jocelin, held a fee in the honour of Reimes (see Hall, : Red Book of the Exchequer, I, p. 356).Google Scholar

page 73 note 1 Liber A: Bocstud’.

page 75 note 1 Inserted over erasure in another hand. Liber A reads ab archidiacono Colec’.

page 75 note 2 Liber A: capettano.

page 76 note 1 Alard became archdeacon of London after 1192. See Robinson, J. A.: Somerset Historical Essays, p. 133.Google Scholar

page 77 note 1 Liber A: loci.

page 78 note 1 According to the memorandum which follows the charter, Alard was an archdeacon when he made his gift; the date therefore is limited, as in No. 103 above.

page 80 note 1 This form occurs several times in this series of charters, e.g. No. 140, 175.

page 84 note 1 See the complementary deed below, No. 114, dated by the attestation of Andrew Bukerel, Mayor of London.

page 86 note 1 Benedict, abbot of Stratford, was elected abbot of Coggeshall in 1218 after an abbacy of nineteen years at Stratford (see Ralph of Coggeshall, Chronicon Anglicanum, p. 187).Google Scholar

page 88 note 1 William de Ste. Mère Eglise was archdeacon of London, c. 1218 to c. 1222 (Newcourt, , I, p. 59).Google Scholar

page 88 note 2 Liber A: Bassigesawe.

page 88 note 3 Ibid.: Lennare.

page 89 note 1 Ibid.: Bassigeshawe.

page 91 note 1 Liber A: Milkestrate.

page 92 note 1 Liber A: Chilem'eford.

page 92 note 2 Ibid.: Bocland’.

page 92 note 3 Ibid.: Sakevilla.

page 92 note 4 Ibid.: Wỳnchestode.

page 93 note 1 Peter de Blois among the witnesses; q.v. No. 84 above.

page 94 note 1 Peter de Blois among the witnesses; q.v. No. 84 above.

page 94 note 2 Harl. MS.: R. archidiacono Colecest' 7 aliis.

page 95 note 1 Peter de Blois is among the witnesses; see No. 84 above.

page 96 note 1 Liber A: Norhampton.’

page 97 note 1 Ibid.: Fulcherio capellano omitted.

page 97 note 2 Peter [not of Blois] witnesses as archdeacon of London in 1192, and was succeeded in this position by Master Alard of Burnham.

page 97 note 3 Reg. Elem. et plmibus aliis.

page 98 note 1 Cf. below, Nos. 261 and 308.

page 98 note 2 Harl. MS.: Start

page 98 note 3 Ibid.: Roberto de Clifford' 7 ministris aliis.

page 98 note 4 Bishop Gilbert Foliot's journey to Rome was in 1169 (Diceto: Opera Historica, I. xlvii).Google Scholar

page 101 note 1 Robert of Sandon, the chamberlain, bought up claims in the property of Nicholas the archdeacon, nephew of the archdeacon, apparently on the death of Master Nicholas, the brother of John of London and Simon of Aldermanbury; cf. No. 143 below. John of London later granted the houses to the dean and chapter of St. Paul's, on conditions implicit in the lease below, No. 139.

page 102 note 1 Peter de Blois is among the witnesses; see No. 84 above.

page 105 note 1 Liber A: Aldermaneburi.

page 107 note 1 Liber A: Saundon.

page 109 note 1 Gilbert of Pleshey was archdeacon after April 1213 in succession to Walter (Cal. Papal Letters, I, p. 38).Google Scholar

page 109 note 2 Liber A: scriptum.

page 110 note 1 The text is obliterated here.

page 115 note 1 Master Thomas of Bishop's Stortford was precentor after 1239 (Newcourt, I, p. 98; and cf. no. 272).

page 120 note 1 Liber A adds: eligendi licencia prius ab eadem capitulo petita. Liber L follows the original.

page 123 note 1 The original charter was copied in the seventeenth century by Dr. Hutton, but is now lost; cf. B.M., Harl. MS. 6956, p. 139.

page 125 note 1 See above, No. 131.

page 127 note 1 The dean who witnesses is Ralph de Diceto [1181–c. 1202], Nicholas, archdeacon of London, had been succeeded by Peter before 1192.

page 127 note 2 From an original, in the St. Paul's chapter library: A. 71/1798, now lost or mislaid.

page 127 note 3 The witness list has been added from Moore's printed text.

page 128 note 1 Osbern was abbot of Bee during these years (Du Monstier: Neustria Pia, p. 461)Google Scholar

page 129 note 1 Benedict of Sansetun was precentor of St. Paul's from 1204 to 1215.

page 131 note 1 Liber A: reddidit.

page 131 note 2 ? ‘loslenus’, abbot of Savigny, 1164–79 (Gallia Christiana, XI. 546).Google Scholar

page 133 note 1 Richard of Gloucester was archdeacon of Colchester from 1190, when Master Richard of Bishop's Stortford held the office of Master of the Schools.

page 133 note 2 Liber A: uista.

page 133 note 3 Liber A: medietatem.

page 133 note 4 Bertram was abbot of Chertsey during this time (see Monasticon, I, p. 423).Google Scholar

page 134 note 1 Gervase of Cornhill flourished c. 1150 (see Round: Geoffrey de Mandevitte, p. 310Google Scholar). Peter son of Alan was an alderman in 1179–80 (Pipe Roll, 9 Ric. I).

page 135 note 1 Ralph of Langford became dean after William, who died in 1138. (Diceto: Opera Historica, I, pp. 252–3Google Scholar). William, archdeacon of London, was superseded by Nicholas during the episcopate of Richard II de Belmeis, but the date is not known.

page 136 note 1 Following a plea started in the king's court in 1241, it was found that the manor of Lisson Green was held by the hereditary sergeanty of keeping the king's money die by a family descended from Otto the goldsmith. Otto the elder, who died before 1098, had held both the misterium cuneorum and the manor of Lisson Green. A St. Paul's record shows how he obtained possession of the latter. He married Eadgiva, widow of Edward, a citizen of London, who had made a gift of land to St. Paul's to take effect after the death of his wife. On her death Otto prevented the reversion; his son, Otto the goldsmith the younger, to whom Henry I confirmed the possessions of his father, withheld the yearly render of ten shillings to the canons (see Douglas: Feudal Documents of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds (British Academy, 1932), p. cxxxixGoogle Scholar, and references there cited; London and Middlesex Fines, p. 25Google Scholar; Round, J. H.: An Early Reference to Domesday, in Domesday Studies, II, p. 556Google Scholar; Domesday Book, I, p. 130bGoogle Scholar; and below, pp. 279–80).

No other reference has been found to Theobald of Lisson Green, to show his connection, if any, with the descendants of Otto the goldsmith. The connection seems probable. The title which he adopts is of special interest. Unfortunately, his deed is difficult to date, especially as the agreement is an unusual one. The hii testes and the absence of a warranty clause suggest a time at least before the turn of the century. The picturesque reference found in this charter to a measure usually referred to as pedes Sancti Pauli, is without exact parallel; in 1181–3 Diceto gave the measurement of the London lands of St. Paul's “by the feet of Algar” (B.M., Harl. MS. 6956, fo. 166).

The London messuage of Theobald is possibly the land of the early St. Paul's survey, near to the Arundel messuage, in a ward which may be the Vintry. But in a fourteenth-century document the White Tawyers can be located at the north-east end of Cheapside (Davis, , in Essays presented to Tout, p. 58Google Scholar; Calendar of Hustings Wills, I p. 339).Google Scholar

page 137 note 1 For Anneis see Red Book of the Exchequer, pp. 360, 628Google Scholar; Book of Fees, p. 579Google Scholar. In the St. Giles Cartulary Richard is called Ricardus de baillia; B.M., Harl. MS. 4015, fo. 23r.

page 138 note 1 Liber A: Agnes de Montpincon.

page 138 note 2 Amercements from the pleas of Ranulf de Glanville in the city of London are entered in the Pipe Roll of 30 Hen. II (1183–4) (op. cit., pp. 140 seq.).

page 139 note 1 Mater uxoris mei Dionisie would be more usual.

page 140 note 1 This appeal was made by the bishops in the course of the controversy leading to the papal provision of Stephen Langton. The bishop of London must head the bishops by virtue of his dignity as dean of the provincial chapter; Gilbert Glanville either as the holder of the see of Rochester or by virtue of seniority; the others in order of seniority. Each of the bishops appended his seal to the letter (St. Paul's MS., W.D. 11).

page 141 note 1 In the Hutton transcripts there is a record of the consecration of Eustace de Fauconberg as bishop of London in April 1221; and of the respective claims there put forward by Jocelin of Wells, as senior bishop, Richard Poore of Salisbury as precentor of the provincial chapter and therefore senior in dignity to the bishops present, and Benedict of Sansetun, as bishop of Rochester and therefore the deputy of Canterbury in episcopal consecrations. The bishop of Winchester, said to be the subdean of the chapter, was not present. Finally, the bishop of Rochester performed the ceremony, after conceding the claim made by the dean and chapter of St. Paul's that first dignity belonged to the London church. (B.M., Harl. MS., 6956, fo. 164).

page 144 note 1 Sc. Ricardo, initial omitted in MS.

page 147 note 1 Printed: Maxwell-Lyte: Report, pp. 45.Google Scholar

page 147 note 2 Liber A: Ric'.

page 147 note 3 ibid: waruo nostro.

page 147 note 4 scribe writes h above line in A. 4/702.

page 147 note 5 de added above line (Ibid.).

page 147 note 6 Liber A: warii.

page 147 note 7 ibid: quod.

page 148 note 1 This grant was probably made in consideration of the licence which is printed below, No. 191. This was given in the episcopate of Roger Niger, before Alexander of Swerford succeeded to the dignity of treasurer in the church of St. Paul (1231).

page 148 note 2 Liber A: Sarneriis.

page 148 note 3 See above, No. 190, note.

page 149 note 1 meo expunged.

page 151 note 1 autem expunged.

page 153 note 1 See the date of No. 196 below.

page 154 note 1 See the date of No. 196 below.

page 157 note 1 Supplied from Liber A, fo. 56a.

page 158 note 1 Supplied from Liber A., fo. 56a.

page 158 note 2 Liber A: mea.

page 158 note 3 Ibid.: Bomstud'.

page 160 note 1 Hugh of Northwold was abbot of St. Edmunds from 1215 to 1229.

page 160 note 2 Roger Niger was archdeacon of Colchester c. 1218–29.

page 161 note 1 Liber A: Fafỳrstod'.

page 163 note 1 See note above to No. 153.

page 164 note 1 Liber A: Ludgate.

page 164 note 2 William of Ely was king's treasurer from c. 1195–1215; see Richardson, H. G.: William of Ely (Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 4th series. Vol. xv, 4855).Google Scholar

page 165 note 1 Liber A: Ludgate.

page 166 note 1 See No. 209 above, note.

page 167 note 1 The punctuation is standardized, although the text is from an original, as the scribe used the point after every group of two or three words.

page 168 note 1 See above No. 209, note.

page 169 note 1 For the dates of Gervase of Heybridge's uncanonical tenure of the deanery see Richardson, H. G.: Letters of the Legate Guala, in E.H.R. Vol. xlviii, p. 254.Google Scholar

page 169 note 2 Punctuation standardized. See No. 211 above, note.

page 169 note 3 Liber A: Botulph'.

page 169 note 4 Ibid.: modo omitted.

page 169 note 5 Ibid.: Ely.

page 170 note 1 Milkestrat'.

page 174 note 1 This seems to be the only reference to this church under the dedication of St. Wandrille. The identification with the church of St. Mary Magdalene in Fishmarket is very probable. The earliest reference to St. Mary Magdalene in Fishmarket is in Diceto's survey of churches in London in the gift of St. Paul's; it was then held by a perpetual vicar called Richard, who was to render sixteen shillings yearly for four years and twenty shillings thereafter. Simpson, W. S.: Visitation of certain churches, etc., in Archælogia, LX, p. 298Google Scholar. Kingsford, in stating that the earliest mention of this church was in 1162, referred to a deed touching the church of St. Mary Magdalene in Milk Street. His other references are to deeds made out after 1182 (Kingsford: Additional Notes to Stowe's Survey of London, p. 25). Algar the priest held of St. Paul's the church of St. Benet on Thames and a house near the church of St. Peter the Less; the church of St. Mary Magdalene in Fishmarket was in the same neighbourhood (Maxwell-Lyte: Report, pp. 23b, 63b).Google Scholar

Incidentally th is identification serves to date Diceto's survey of churches to the year 1183.

page 175 note 1 Liber A: Wandragesili.

page 175 note 2 Alice de Bethun died soon after September 1215. William Marshal II succeeded his father in 1219, but did not remarry until 1224. As he did not use the earl's title in this charter, it is probable that his father was still alive. See Dictionary of National Biography.

page 176 note 1 See above No. 221, note.

page 177 note 1 Liber A: Brachino.

page 177 note 2 ibid: Sequens omitted.

page 177 note 3 Ibid.: Bethun.

page 177 note 4 Ibid.: Super.

page 177 note 5 Ibid.: Omitted to roborandium.

page 177 note 6 ibid: etc.

page 180 note 1 Word obliterated.

page 184 note 1 The churches were held in vicarage by Butley, when the survey of London churches was made by Diceto; for the possible date of this (1183), see note to No. 220 above.

page 187 note 1 The precentor referred to in the charter was Walter fitz Walter, prebendary of Holywell, and precentor of St. Paul's c. 1200, who made a grant from his prebend to the nuns of Holywell (Cal. Charter Rolls [April 1235], p. 200Google Scholar). The prebend of Holywell does not seem to have been formally appropriated to the office of precentor, although many of its holders in the twelfth century had actually held that office (see Newcourt, , I, p. 159).Google Scholar

page 188 note 1 See No. 233 above, and note.

page 189 note 1 See above, No. 168.

page 189 note 2 Liber A: octingenta.

page 189 note 3 Ibid.: Milkstreta.

page 189 note 4 Ibid.: sancte.

page 189 note 5 Ibid.: sepedictus.

page 190 note 1 Liber A: apud.

page 190 note 2 Ibid.: sancte.

page 190 note 3 Geoffrey de Lucy was archdeacon of London from c. 1222 to 1229. William de Breauté, cum herede et filia Radulfi de Marci, held a hide of land in the canons' manor of Navestock (1222); (see Hale: Domesday of St. Paul's, p. 75).Google Scholar

page 192 note 1 Probably a scribal error for Plumb'.

page 192 note 2 William of Northall, who witnesses, became bishop of Worcester in 1186.

page 194 note 1 Cf. the antecedent papal commission, Report: p. 49a.Google Scholar

page 196 note 1 Mora, later Moorfields, outside London (Newcourt, , I, p. 177).Google Scholar

page 199 note 1 The land which the Bernsrs family held of the Mandevilles lay in Essex.

page 200 note 1 Gilbert of Pleshey was archdeacon of London c. 1214 (see Robinson, J. A.: Somerset Historical Essays, p. 133Google Scholar); Gervase was chancellor in this year (Newcourt, I, p. 111).

page 201 note 1 Walter, archdeacon of London, was addressed in a papal letter of April 1213 (Cal. Pap. Letters, p. 38).Google Scholar

page 202 note 1 Cf. No. 257, below. Richard Ruffus II succeeded Richard Ruffus the archdeacon of Essex as firmarius of the St. Paul's manor of Belchamp (Pipe Rolls, 20 Hen. II, 69). Godwin the Carpenter appears as a free tenant of Belchamp in 1181 (Hale: Domesday of St. Paul's, p. 115).Google Scholar

page 202 note 2 See above, No. 256, note, for Richard Rufius II.

page 203 note 1 See above, No. 256, note, for Richard Ruffus II.

page 204 note 1 See above, No. 256, note, for Richard Ruffus II.

page 204 note 2 Nicholas was archdeacon of London before 1192.

page 206 note 1 Walter was archdeacon of London after Peter de Blois until 1213–14.

page 207 note 1 Alan was provost of St. Bartholomew's to 1198 (Moore: St. Bartholomew's Hospital, pp. 141, 230Google Scholar and cf. Ibid., pp. 225–6, note).

page 208 note 1 See below, No. 266.

page 209 note 1 Stephen was provost of St. Bartholomew's between 1198 and 1211 (Moore: op. cit., p. 230).

page 211 note 1 Sic, for “orientalem”: Cf. No. 138.

page 213 note 1 dictam terram expunged.

page 214 note 1 Peter of Newport was archdeacon of London in 1236. See above, No. 87.

page 217 note 1 Liber A: ỳlingis.

page 217 note 2 Ibid.: Madeleỳa.

page 217 note 3 Liber A adds post above the line, a correction made by the original scribe.

page 219 note 1 Alexander of Swerford became treasurer of St. Paul's in 1231.

page 220 note 1 Hugh, archdeacon of Colchester, died in 1238 (Newcourt, , I, p. 87).Google Scholar

page 223 note 1 These copies may not have been made from the same document; but the variant readings are not sufficiently important to necessitate the printing of both versions. The text of the first copy is given, and the variant readings of the second.

page 223 note 2 dedisse concessisse.

page 223 note 3 hac added.

page 223 note 4 draperii omitted.

page 223 note 5 Cripelgate.

page 223 note 6 pre-.

page 223 note 7 scilicet omitted.

page 223 note 8 7 omitted.

page 224 note 1 post mortem dicti Ricardi: conuertetur omitted.

page 224 note 2 donatio concessio.

page 224 note 3 Richardo.

page 224 note 4 Thoma.

page 224 note 5 Crỳsor.

page 224 note 6 Land' omitted.

page 224 note 7 aliis.

page 224 note 8 Liber A: Ierosolimitan.

page 225 note 1 Supplied from Nero E, VI, as the original is here decayed. Liber A is curtailed at de Ver.

page 225 note 2 Alan was bishop of Bangor between these dates only.

page 226 note 1 Supplied from the Cotton MS.

page 226 note 2 Alard succeeded Peter as archdeacon of London, who witnessed as such in 1192.

page 231 note 1 This agreement follows the ordination of the vicarage (see above, Nos. 87–90).

page 232 note 1 Richard de Camville's fee escheated to the crown in 1219 (Book of Fees, I, p. 272).Google Scholar

page 232 note 2 See below, No. 294. Alexander of Swerford was treasurer of St. Paul's after 1231.

page 233 note 1 See above, No. 293, note.

page 233 note 2 Liber A: Mauduit.

page 234 note 1 Liber A omits filius Galfridi Blundi de London’.

page 238 note 1 William de Raleigh was bishop of Norwich in 1239.

page 239 note 1 Reference-mark to note in MS. (14th century): uel centum solidos sterlingorum vt dicitur infra XV. folio ab hinc. A cross-reference is found on fo. 47a.

page 239 note 2 Ibid.: 7 pluribus aliis cameris quas Thomas de Ingaldesthorp decanus manerium totum reedificans fabricari fecit.

page 241 note 1 Willelmo apparently omitted.

page 246 note 1 Walter was archdeacon of London after Peter de Blois (1212) and in 1213. See above, No. 255.

page 249 note 1 ego seems to have been omitted by the scribe of Liber A.

page 250 note 1 Liber A: Serientia.

page 250 note 2 Nicholas the archdeacon had been succeeded in his office by Peter in 1192.

page 253 note 1 Peter of Newport witnesses; see above, No. 271, note.

page 258 note 1 Liber A: Wickam.

page 258 note 2 Ibid.: Stuwèy.

page 259 note 1 Liber A: Stebbee.

page 265 note 1 Missing passage supplied from No. 332.

page 268 note 1 MS.: A. 32/607 is another notification by Peter, of the same grant, written in the same handwriting, but with some additional definitions which were used also in the charter printed above, No. 330.

(i) cum haỳa 7 fossato illo.

(ii) Ad supplementum … sine aliquo retenemento.

Apart from these additions the only variants come in the notification: Sciant tarn presentes quam futuri quod ego Petrus filius Willelmifilii Alulfi.

Size: 10½′ × 9½′. Seal attached to tag: PIERRES FIL WILL …

page 277 note 1 This is the reading, but uestra seems more likely.

page 277 note 2 Very indistinct from bladibus.