| Description | From: William II, king of England
To: Guy, abbot of St Augustine's Abbey
Ordering him to introduce no further customs to those held under Archbishop Lanfranc, and to show the same honour and subjection to the Church of Canterbury as held then, both in the ringing of bells and in other customs. No date. [Date: Bishop and Chaplais, who assume that it dates from the vacancy of the see after Lanfranc's death.]
Witness: Eudo the steward
Endorsed with description in early 13th cent hand. |
| Publication Note | Transcribed with facsimile in T A M Bishop and P Chaplais (eds), Facsimiles of English royal writs to AD 1100 (Oxford, 1957), no 5
Calendared in H W C Davis (ed), Regesta regum anglo-normannorum, vol i, 1066-1100 (Oxford, 1913), p112
Transcribed in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p431 |