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CONFIRMATION by Peter Merevin of a grant by himself and Goldeburg his wife in her last will to Southwark Priory of 12d. yearly from their land before the church of St. Elena [St. Helen's, Bishopsgate] ; with proviso that, if he should wish to mortgage or sell the land, the canons shall have the first offer at such a price as another would give, but that, if they refuse, he may dispose of it at will, the rent to the priory as above always reserved. [Circ. 1160-1165.]
Notum sit vniuersis sancte dei ecclesie fidelibus tam presentibus quan/ et futuris . quod ego Petrus Merevin . donationem quam fecimus ego et vxor mea Goldeburga in testament° eius extremo . deo et ecclesie sancte Marie de Sudewurcha et canonicis ibidem deo seruientibus ratam habeo . firma donatione concedo . et presentis scripti pagina confirmo . Scilicet .xii. denarios de terra nostra que est ante ecclesiam sancte Elene . de me et de heredibus meis annuatim in die festi Inuentionis sancte Crucis.' in perpetuum soluendos . Quod si procedente tempore penuria uel aliqua alia necessitate urgente . predictam terram inuadiare uel uendere uoluero ecclesia prefata et canonici primi et propinquiores sint ad inuadiandum aut emendum . si eis placuerit ? simili pretio quo alius uoluerit . Sin autern saluo predict° redditu ecclesie annuo cuicumque uoluero inuadiare uel uendere licebit. Huius rei testes sunt . Dompnus . Nicholaus . Londoniensis archidiaconus . Ricardus . frater eius . Willelrnus filius Marweni . Ricardus de sancto Bartho/orneo . Aluredus de Comhella . Algarus de sancto Benedict° . Sawinus de sancto Botulfo sacerdotibus . Willelmus Affaitied . Ricardus filius Radtdfi:' prepositis de soca . iEdmundus lderrnan . Blacsufi . lderman . YErnulfus Cornerius . Robertus . Anglicus . Martinus filius Edwardi . Ricardus Sperewe . Edmundus Seinetier . Petrus de Salustria . Lewinus Besand . Normannus Bemere . Durandus Parmenter . Radulfus clericus de Sudewurcha . Odo . Aurifaber . Briennus Aurifaber . Iohannes filius Ferth . Petrus filius Petri . H. famulus . Willelmus seneschal . Suenus cocus . Rogerus Gaispors . Willelmus de Perenduna . Odo armiger . Radulfus Palerfi . Galfridus Lepvs.
C I R O G R A F U M.
[Cotton Ch. xxvii. Tool
Peter Merevin or Merefin, as a moneyer of London, owed one mark towards the aid for the marriage of the king's daughter Matilda in 1167-1168 (Pipe Roll, p. 61, and still owed it in 1171-1172, being then dead (Pipe Roll, p. 146). Some of the witnesses, viz. Rich. Sperewe, Edm. Seintier, and Lewin Besant, also appear among the London moneyers paying to the same aid, and Peter de Salustria ' is perhaps identical with Peter de Salerna ' (ibid.). As Rich. Sperewe was represented by his heirs as early as 1167-1168, the charter must be before that date. The church of St. Helen belonged to St. Paul's (Newcourt, Repertorium, i. pp. 57, 363), and the chapter is represented by the first witness „Nicholas, Archdeacon of London, who was appointed circ. Ii6o, and still held office in 1185 (ibid. p. 58 ; cf. R. de Diceto, i. p. xli). Among the other witnesses are the priests of four London churches, the prepositi' or bailiffs of the bishop's soke, afterwards Cornhill ward, and two aldermen. |