Text name |
Proclamation of Henry III |
File name |
Not included in PPCME2 |
Manuscript |
London, Public Record Office, C66, Patent Rolls,
43 Henry III, m.15.40 |
Date |
1258 |
Dialect |
East Midlands (London; South-East with East Midland influence) |
Genre |
Document |
Edition |
Dickens, B and R.M. Wilson (eds.),
Early Middle English Texts
(London, 1951, 1956). |
Sample |
Pp. 8-9 |
Remarks |
This is the first official document in English since William the Conqueror.
It was also issued in Latin and French, and the English is a translation
of the French version. The French is reproduced in
Mossé, p. 187.
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