Beschreibung:

Henry II (King of England, Duke of Normandy and of Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, 1133-89).- Copy of a forged charter of Henry II to the nunnery of Wix, being a general confirmation to Wix Priory, of their properties in Wix, Frating, Tolleshunt (Essex), Chattisham, Hintlesham (Surrfolk), assart up to 100 acres in Essex, the right to keep two greyhounds (leporarios) and four brachets (bractatos) for hunting hares with permission to hunt in the king's forests in Essex etc., witnesses including, Roger, Bishop of York, Richard, Bishop of London, Reginald, Earl of Cornwall and Thomas, chancellor (i.e. Thomas Becket), manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 33 lines, stab holes at head and tail where stitched to two other sheets, small tear at head with small loss of two words on first line, folds, slightly browned, some creasing at head, Phillipps manuscript 31943 with number on dorse, 338 x 250mm., housed in a custom made box, [purporting to be Northampton, c. 1155-58, originally forged c. 1196-99 but this copy c. 1280s]. ⁂ Wix Priory, dedicated to St. Mary, was a small convent of Benedictine Nuns situated at the top of Abbey Hill, Wix, Essex, between the present parish church and Wix Abbey farmhouse. It was founded in the reign of King Henry I by the sons and daughter of Walter the Deacon who owned much of Wix in the late 11th and early 12th centuries.