name I cannot reherse.

[Sidenote: _Iohn Rous._] But to conclude, though king William held the
English so vnder foot, that in his daies almost no Englishman bare any
office of honor or rule in his time, yet he somewhat fauoured the
citie of London, and at the earnest sute of William a Norman then
bishop of that see, he granted vnto the citizens the first charter,
which is written in the Saxon toong, sealed with greene wax, and
expressed in viij. or ix. lines at the most, exemplified according to
the copie, and so printed, as followeth.

"Williem King grets Williem Bisceop & Godfred Porterefan, & ealle
ya Burghwarn binnen London Frencisce, & Englise frendlice, &
Ickiden eoy, yeet ic wille yeet git ben ealra weera lagayweord,
ye get weeran on Eadwerds daege kings. And ic will yeet aelc
child by his fader yrfnume, aefter his faders daege. And ic nelle
ge wolian, yeet aenig man eoy aenis wrang beode. God eoy heald."

"Wilhelmus rex salutat Wilhelmum Episcopum, & Goffridum
Portegrefium, & omnem Burghware infra London Frans. & Angl.
amicabiliter. Et vobis notum facio, quòd ego vole quòd vos sitis
omni lege illa digni qua fuistis Edwardi diebus regis. Et volo
quòd omnis puer sit patris sui hæres post diem patris sui. Et ego
nolo pati quòd aliquis homo aliquam iniuriam vobis inferat. Deus
vos saluet."

[Sidenote: _Matth. Paris._ _Hen. Hunt._] But howsoeuer he vsed the
rest of the English, this is recorded of some writers, that by his
rigorous proceedings against them, he brought to passe that the
countrie was so rid of theeues and robbers, as that at length a maid