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Agreement between Bishop Gundulf and Haimo son of Vitalis concerning privileges relating to the church at Stourmouth: Textus Roffensis, f. 185v Translated from Old English Dr Chris Monk

Abstract: ‘…this very Haimo gave the church of Stourmouth and all its Sunday tithing, with all customary payments which pertain to the same church, and 4 acres of land which are in the church, and in the same manor pasture for one hundred sheep…’ To cite this report: Monk, C. (2017) Agreement between Bishop Gundulf and Haimo son of Vitalis concerning privileges relating to the church at Stourmouth: Textus Roffensis, f. 185v; Translated from Old English. Rochester: Rochester Cathedral Research Guild.

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Textus Roffensis, Rochester, Cathedral Library, MS A. 3. 5, f. 185v

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Agreement between Bishop Gundulf and Haimo son of Vitalis concerning privileges relating to the church at Stourmouth: Textus Roffensis, f. 185v Translated from Latin and edited by Dr Christopher Monk © 2017 Date: 1093–1108

This is the agreement which Haimo son of Vitalis1 made with respect to bishop Gundulf of Rochester:2 to the bishop and monks this very Haimo gave the church of Stourmouth and all its Sunday tithing, with all customary payments which pertain to the same church, and 4 acres of land which are in the church, and in the same manor pasture for one hundred sheep. And this was made for the soul of his father and his mother and his own; and, on account of this, his brother was made a monk in the church of St Andrew. And this very agreement was made in the presence of archbishop Anselm, therefore he himself was present, and therefore he granted that it be done. And these are the witnesses who were present: Baldwin the monk; Guy the monk; Ansfrid the priest; Ralf the chamberlain; Ivo of Malaville,3 and several others of the archbishop’s household; and William of Adisham.4

1 Vitalis of Canterbury: see K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People: A Prosopograhy of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066–1166 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1999), I: Domesday Book, p. 443. 2 Bishop and prior at Rochester, from 1077 to 1108. 3 Or, Ives. 4 Adisham, tentatively for Etesham. Adisham was earlier known as Edesham (1006) and Eadesham (c.1100); see Judith Glover, The Place Names of Kent (London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1976), p. 3; Etesham may perhaps be a variant spelling.

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Latin text, directly from Textus Roffensis The digital facsimile of this text is located at:

http://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/Man4MedievalVC~4~4~990378~142729?page=0.

Type ‘n379’ into the page search box. The text begins eight lines down from the top of the left-hand folio and finishes

at the bottom of the page.

Editorial notes: the layout approximates that in the manuscript (and thus includes words split over two lines);

expansions of Latin abbreviations and contractions are indicated by italics; punctuation has been modernised; capitals

have been used for all personal and place-names; coloured font represents coloured ink in the manuscript.

[f. 185v] ęc est conuentio quam Haimo filius Vitalis fecit uersus Gun- dulfum episcopum de Rouecestra, quod ipse Haimo dedit episcopo et monachis ęcclesiam de Sturmu- tha et suam dominicam decimam totam cum omnibus consuetudinibus quę ad eandem ęcclesiam per- tinent, et iiiior acros terrę qui in ęcclesia sunt, et in eodem manerio pasturam ad centum oues. Et hoc fecit pro anima patris sui et matris suę et pro sua, et propter hoc quod quendam fratrem suum fecit monachum in ęcclesia Sancti An- dreę. Et hęc ipsa conuentio fuit facta coram Anselmo archiepiscopo, ita quod ipsemet affuit, et ita fieri concessit. Et isti sunt testes qui affuerunt: Baldeuuinus monachus, ido monachus, Ansfridus clericus, Ra- dulfus camerarius, Iuo de mala uilla, et alii plures de familia archiepiscopi, et Willelmus de Etesham.5

5 The words ‘allii […] Etesham’ were added by a different, though contemporary, hand. There does not appear to be any erasure, so it would seem that a space was left by the principal scribe, who perhaps was unexpectedly taken from his work and forgot to complete the text on his return.

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