The Magna Carta Project

Notification of the King’s grant of protection to John of Guestling

Identity

B80

Title

Notification of the King’s grant of protection to John of Guestling

Beneficiary

John of Guestling (People)

Date of issue

2 August 1201

Place of issue

Chinon (Places)

Sources

B = PRO C 52/5 (Cartae Antiquae Roll E) no.25, s.xiii in.

Printed

(from B) The Cartae Antiquae Rolls 1-10, ed. L. Landon, Pipe Rolls Society n.s. xvii (1939), i, no.174.

Comment

Transcription

I(ohannes) Dei gratia rex Anglie dominus Hibernie dux Normannie et Aquitanie comes Andegauie iusticiariis, vicecomitibus et omnibus bailliuis et fidelibus salutem.  Mandamus vobis quod custodiatis, protegatis, manuteneatis et defendatis omnes terras, res, redditus et possessiones Iohannis de Gestling’ sicut nostram dominicam, nec inferatis ei vel inferri permittatis molestiam, iniuriam aut grauamen nec ponantur in placitum de aliquo tenemento suo nisi coram nobis vel capitali iusticiario nostro, et precipimus quod quietus sit de schiris et hundredis et custodia castellorum quamdiu vixerit.  Testibus: W(illelmo) Marescallo comite de Penbroc, W(illelmo) comite ......, Roberto de Turnham, Petro de Stoke apud Chinon’, ii. die Augusti.

Calendar

Mandate to the king’s men to protect the land and possessions of John of Guestling.

Charters not found in surviving rolls