Charter of King Stephen confirming the Benedictine Priory of Eye, Suffolk in all its rights and possessions

Item date: 1137-1138

Grant Value: 250

Item cost pre-decimal: 650

Item date acquired: 1969

Item institution: British Library

Town/City: London

One of the most remarkable survivng documents of Stephens reign, written in the solemn elaborate language more usual in charters from before the Conquest. Has an added list of witnesses including the King, his wife Matilda and his son Eustance. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR. Add Charter 75727

Item Provenance

Phillipps MS 32925