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V Abbatial acts and documents concerning the abbey as a community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2009

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218 Charter of mutual societas by Peter [the Venerable], abbot of Cluny, to Abbot Hugh [I] and the convent of Reading. On the death of the abbot of Reading, his successor shall be elected from the monks of that house or from the monks of Cluny, the prior of Cluny excepted [ 1123 × 30]

Karissimo fratri nostro domno Hugoni Radingensi abbati eique commisso conventui frater Petrus fratrum Cluniacensium servus indignus, omnem in Christo pacis et societatis unitatem. Quoniam nobilissimus rex Anglorum Henricus benefactor noster egregius domum vestram quam noviter edificavit in ordine religionis mon-astice per fratres nostre congregationis fundare voluit, nos pro eiusdem regis gratia et petitione vestra vobis et successoribus vestris concedimus et in capitulo Cluniacensi presentes firmavimus ut quicumque abbas Radingensis monasterii fuerit capitulum in domo nostra et in ceteris domibus ad nos pertinentibus habeat et teneat, et fratres Rading(enses) ubicumque ad loca nostra venerint similiter ut nostri sint in capitul(o). Cum autem abbas Rading(ensis) quicumque ille fuerit ex hac vita migraverit, brevi ad nos perlato net ei officium consuetum et tricenarium. Fratribus vero prefati loci obeuntibus idipsum in conventu nostro et in omnibus locis nostris persolvendum statuimus quod nostris professis solvere solemus, eosque inter fratres nostros scribi in regula capituli annuatim recitandos decrevimus. Quod autem vobis vestrisque successoribus et conventui vestro tarn presenti quam future concessimus idipsum nobis nostrisque successoribus et conventui nostro tam presenti quam future a vobis concedi et confirmari volumus, qui vos vestraque omnia parentes etiam vestros et benefactores tam defunctos quam vivos in orationibus et missis et elemosinis et omnibus bonis nostris suscipimus et matri misericordie commendamus. Statutum etiam est, in signum tante unitatis et ad maiorem Cluniacensis ordinis in domo Radingensi stabilitatem, ut abbate Radingensi ex hac vita migrante conventus eiusdem loci de propriis professis ecclesie sue non de alienis abbatem sibi eligant. Quod si inter eos persona idonea inventa non fuerit, tune sibi eligant Radingenses de monachis Cluniac(ensibus) quemcumque ad hoc digniorem invenire potuerint, excepta persona prioris Cluniac(ensis). Electus autem eis sine contradictione abbas ordinetur. Hec instituta sunt voluntate et precepto domni regis Henrici et communi assensu tarn ipsius quam nostro.

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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1986

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page 181 note 1 This expression is taken from the rubric.

page 181 note a Interlined

page 183 note a Dominus D

page 183 note b–b dimid' panis D

page 183 note c servisie D

page 183 note d Om. in D

page 183 note e Very uncertain reading in D

page 184 note a Supplied

page 184 note b At this point a gap of 2 or 3 words filled by 3 dashes

page 184 note 1 The reference is to the previous entry, no. 221.

page 186 note a–a Om. in B, C; supplied from D

page 186 note b–b Asa–a

page 186 note c perpendi D

page 186 note d Walterii D

page 186 note e Leoministr' C

page 186 note f–f Om. in D

page 186 note g For expansion, see no. 211 n.2

page 186 note 1 Perhaps a reference to the guest-house of the abbey.

page 186 note 2 See no. 203.

page 186 note 3 In Bucklebury parish (see no. 694).

page 186 note 1 This prints inaccurately the item Gesta regis Henrici et ystoria Rading' in uno volumine (see Leyser, K. in EHR, xc (1975), 494).Google Scholar

page 187 note 1 The additions concern King John's gift of the Head of St Philip (see no. 49 n.; James, M. R., A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Lambeth Palace (Cambridge, 1932), 503Google Scholar) and the gift by Duke [William X] of Aquitaine to Henry I of a ‘boy’, i.e., a statue of the Christ Child which was kept at Reading and known later as the ‘Child of Grace’ (see Bethell, ibid., 63 and n.2).

page 188 note a–a Om. in B

page 188 note 1 Sarum Charters has Ricardo, for which there is no warrant.

page 188 note 2 The same has Riveres in error.

page 188 note 3 Clearly a depiction of the hand of St James and perhaps designed in imitation of the actual reliquary. The same depiction appears on the seal of Abbots Richard I and William II (below, no 800; Salisbury Chapter Muniments, Press II, Box 1/7).

page 190 note a For expansion, see. no. 132

page 190 note b cellerarius C

page 190 note c Sic in B; significamus C

page 190 note d custodia C

page 190 note e Supplied

page 190 note f Blblias in both copies

page 190 note g Om. in C

page 190 note h Doubtful reading; ? rectius Cachel'

page 191 note a Sar' C

page 191 note b Herford' C

page 191 note c negligenciam C

page 191 note d Verdinen' C

page 191 note e–e Sic in both copies; ? rectius paternitatis pietate

page 191 note f London' C

page 191 note 1 The year-date has been given as 1282 on the assumption that the year was held to begin on 25 March, but it is possible that 1283 is correct, since a rather ambiguous passage near the end of no. 232 may suggest that this notification was made after Arditio's departure from England, which occurred 1 July, 1282 (ibid., 619).

page 194 note a Sic in B; significo C

page 194 note b assignare B, assignar' C

page 194 note c B has here et marked for deletion, C has et not so marked

page 194 note d comparuerint C

page 194 note e Sar' C

page 194 note f Herford' C

page 194 note g respondebit C

page 194 note h Both copies have excedebat

page 194 note i–i Both copies have per quam

page 194 note j Both copies have this word after Jacobi and marked for transposition

page 194 note k Interlined in B

page 195 note 1 See no. 230.

page 195 note 2 See no. 231. James Sabellus, cardinal deacon of St Mary in Cosmedin, became Pope Honorius IV in 1285.

page 195 note a–a This passage appears at the beginning of the document, the rest at the end

page 199 note a Eustaus C

page 199 note b qualibet C

page 200 note c Edwardus C

page 200 note d Om. in C, tut space left blank

page 200 note e Om. in B,C; supplied from F

page 200 note f barrez F

page 200 note g Sic in all copies; ? rectius dedit

page 200 note h Om. in C

page 200 note i F omits the remainder, but continues with the trial of Josce of Newbury (see note)

page 200 note 1 Possibly an inn.