King William notifies Archbishop Thomas of York, Turold and Earnwig his sheriffs, and all his French and English thegns in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, that he has gratned to the church of St Mary at Stow and the monks, Newarks, Notts., Fledborough, Notts., Brampton, Lincs., and the wapentake of Well, Lincs., with sake and soke and toll and team, as fully as Godgifu formerly had them in the days of King Edward, and with the things that Bishop Remigius can testify rightly belong to it. Whatever has been alienated shall be returned.
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