Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 [extracts]

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Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 [extracts]
Author
Hall, Joseph, 1854-1927.
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Oxford,: The Clarendon press,
1920.
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English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Readers.
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"Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 [extracts]." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/CME00035. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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IV. CHARTER OF HENRY THE SECOND

H' þurh godes ȝefu aenglelandes king gret ealle mine bissceopas & ealle mine eorlas & ealle mine scirereuan & ealle mine þeinas frencisce & englisce · on þan sciran þe teobalt ercebisceop & se hiret

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aet xpistes chyrchen on Cantuarabirȝ habbad land inne freondlice & ic [4. Cantuarabirȝ] last letter ȝ or g; the one has been corrected out of the other: so too in deȝe, l. 6.] keþe eow {that} ic hebbe heom geunnon {that} hi beon aelc þare lande wurþa [ 5] þe hi eafdon en Edwardes kinges deȝe · & on Willelmes kinges mines furþur ealdefader · & on Henrices kinges mines ealdefader · & saca & Socne · on strande & on Streame. On wudan · & on feldan · tolles & theames · grithbriches · & hamsocne · & forstalles · & infangenesthiafes · & fleamene frimtha · ofer heore agene men · binnan Burgan & butan · [ 10] swa ful & swa ford swa mine agene Wicneres hit sechan scolden · & ofer swa fele þeinas swa ich heom to leten habban. And ic nelle {that} eni man enig þing þer on theo · butan hi & heara wicneras · þe hi hit bitechan · willað · ne frencisce ne englisce · for þan þingan þe ich habbe [14. þingan] þimgan MS.] criste þas gerichtan forgifan minre Saule to echere alisendnessee & ic [ 15] nelle geþauian {that} enig man þis abrece bi minan fullen frenscipan. God geau gehealde.

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