Confirmation of the privileges of St Andrew’s Priory by Archbishop Theobald of Bec, c.1139
Confirmation of privileges by Archbishop Theobald of Bec(1139-1161)
September 29, 2022
Confirmation of privileges to Rochester by Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, from 1139-1161. Translation from Latin of Textus Roffensis, folios 131r-132r by Jacob Scott (pending review).
There are annotations in a later hand in the right margin of folio 205v, along with some underlining of place names on this page.
Transcription
204v (select folio number to open facsimile)
TEODBALDUS gratia dei cantuar archiepiescopus et to-
tius britannię primas omnibus sancte ęcclessię
fidelibus salutem. Notum uobus e’e’ uolo quod omnibus
donationes et concessiones omnium mane-
riorum et omnium terrarum . et omnium ęcclessiaru-
cum omnibus redditibus et rectitudibus suis .
et omnium decimarum quę hactenus concessę
et donatę st’ ęcclessę sancti ANDREĘ apli’ quę sita
est in ciuitate roucestra aquilibus cunq;
fiue regibus five arep’is uel epis seu comi-
tibus seu aliis quibus libet hui regni nobilibus
concessę sint aut donatę . ego teodbaldus
gratia dei cantuar arep’s et toti’ britannię primas
auctoritate m’ a deo collata . omnimodo
ratas et in perpetuum stabiles e’e’ confirmo.
Et eas nominatim quas GUNDVLFUS illi’
ęcclessę episcopus ut ad usum monachorum illorum
qui in eadem ęcclessia domino xp’o et prędicto aplo
deuote famulantur permaneant ordi-
nauit : ego eidem ęcclę et eisdem monachis
uire ęternę hęreditaus habendas et libe
atq: quiete confirmo possidendas. Et
sicut ipse pręnominat’ episcopus qui ęccl’am
illa’ fundauit et monachos illos illic
congregauit . et ipsa maneria et terras q’s
insuo dominico habebat . ipsis monachis a
suo p’po uictu
Translation
THEOBALD, by the grace of God, Archbishop of Canterbury, and all the people of Britain, all the faithful of the holy church greetings. I want to make known to you all the gifts and concessions of all the manors and all the lands. and all the church and all rents and righteousnesses, and of all the tithes that have hitherto been given and donated to Saint Andrew's situated in the city of Rochester, aquilib' cunq; to the five kings, five arepis or bishops or counts or to others whom they pleased were granted or given to the nobles of this kingdom. I, Theobald, by the grace of God, can sing arep's and all Britannia's foremost authority given to me by God, in every way approved and permanently stable by him confirmed.
And those in particular which Gundulf, the bishop of that place, ordered to continue for the use of those monks who in the same place serve the lord Christ to be held as an heir and to be possessed at will; And as he pre-names the bishop who founded that church and gathered those monks there. and she herself had manors and lands that belonged to her own domain. And as he pre-names the bishop who founded that church and those monks there gathered, and she herself had manors and lands that belonged to her own domain. the monks themselves were defeated by their pope.