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grant of 6d annually in return for a watercourse running through land owned by the canons of st paul’s without the bar, without bishopesgate by g(ilbert folio) bishop of london to the canons of st pauls
1180x 1189 ;seal imp ;date ralp de diceto as dean 1180-1201, nicholas witnes as archdeacon 1162-1189
[[[[ecsp 65. Confirmation by Gilbert Foliot, bishop of London, to the canons of St. Paul's, of a yearly rent of 6d. for the land which they had granted for the bishop's aqueduct outside the bar outside Bishopsgate [London].
Date : 1181-7.
MSS. : A 24/834 (original) ; Liber A, fo. 6a (No. 6o).
G. dei gratia Londoniensis episcopus . sancte matris ecclesie fails ad quos hec littere peruenerint f salutem in domino. Uniuersitati uestre presenti scripto notificamus . nos concessisse dilectis -filiis nostris canonicis ecclesie beati Pauli sex denarios annuatim ad duos terminos soluendos . in pascha videlicet tres denarios. 7 in festo sancti Michaelis . totidem qui sex denarii de terris his exoluentur pro aqueductu quem nobis 7 hominibus nostris habendum concesserunt per terram suam que proxima est extra barram que est extra portam nostram que uocatur Bissupesgate . videlicet de terra Haldeni .I. d. de terra Seamani Belle. II. d. de terra Siwardi filii Willelmi .I. d. de terra Estrild' 7 Edricii .I. d. de terra Eilredi tannarii I d. Quem nimirum aqueductum homines nostri quando opus fuerit mundabunt 7 reparabunt expensis suis 7 seruabunt ne iamdicti canonici in terris suis uel in redditibus aliquid omnino dampnum senciant uel detrimentum. Volumus etiam 7 concedimus ut quicumque domum habuerit 7 tenuerit per quam aqueductus cursum suum facit . memoratos sex denarios annuatim dictis terminis pro ipso aqueductu percipiat. Quod quia firmum 7 stabile manere desideramus . pagine presentis inscriptione 7 sigilli nostri municione confirmamus. Testibus. Radulfo decano London' ecclesie. Nicholao archidiacono. Ricardo magistro scolarum London'. magistro Hugone de London'. magistro Henrico de Northamptonia. Hugone de Racon'. Willelmo de Belmeis. Radulfo de Chilethon' . canonicis. Willelmo Foliot senescallo. Roberto de Fuleham.
Endorsed : (i) de sex denariis soluendis ecclesie sancti Pauli Lond' pro
aqueductu hospitalis de Bissopesgate [13th century].
(ii) De redd' quieto VI d. soluend' de aqueductu ad Bissopesgate [15th century]. 178 C.
Size : x 6'. Fragment of episcopal seal attached to tag.