Edward by the grace of God king of England, lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons, justiciars, sheriffs, reeves and officials, and to all our bailiffs and their faithful men, greeting. We have caused to be made a certain inquisition of quod dampnum102 by our sheriff of Suffolk, so that we might presume to give without doing injury or prejudice to anyone. And to grant to our beloved in Christ the abbot and convent of St Edmund a certain toft of ours with its appurtenances in the town of St Edmund next to the street of Westgate Street, which the Friars Minor had once wanted to inhabit, for the same abbot and convent and their successors to hold in free, pure and perpetual alms. We have heard this on account of the favour the aforesaid abbot has done us, before our co-heirs and barons of the exchequer; we have given and granted, for us and our heirs, forasmuch as it is in us, that the said abbot and convent and his successors may have and hold the aforesaid toft with its appurtenances in free, pure and perpetual alms as aforesaid. Witness these things the venerable fathers the reverend archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England, the reverend bishops of Coventry and Lichfield and of Carlisle, Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford and Essex, Aymer de Valence, John de Grantham junior, Hugh le Despenser, Robert de Clifford, John …, Robert de la Ward our seneschal … to our order and the same to others throughout the world. At Sheen, on the seventh day of October in the thirty-third year of our reign.