de Anno 18. Regis Edwardi primi.

Rex Archiepiscopis &c. salutem. Sciatis nos quietos clamasse pro nobis &
haredibus nostris dilectos nostros, Ciues de Colonia, & mercandisam suam de
illis duobus solidis, [Marginal note: Antiqua consuetudo Gildhalla
Coloniensium Londini.] quos solebant dare de Gildhalia sua London, & de
omnibus alijs consuetudinibus & demandis, qua pertinent ad nos in London, &
per totam terram nostram; & quod libere possunt ire ad ferias, per totam
terram nostram & emere & vendere in villa London & alibi, salua libertate
Ciuitatis nostra London. Quare volumus & firmiter pracipimus pro nobis &
haredibus nostris quod pradicti ciues de Colonia pranommatas libertates &
libera consuetudines habeant per totam terram nostram Anglia sicut
pradictum est. His testibus, venerabili patre Waltero Caerleoiensi
Episcopo, Wilhelmo de Ferarijs, Gilberto Basset, Waltero de Bello campo,
Hugone Disspenser, Waltero Marescallo, Galfrido Dispenser, Bartholomao
Pech, Bartholomao de Saukeuill, & alijs. Data per manum venerabilis patris
Radulphi Cicistronsis Episcopi, Cancellarij nostri apud Dauintre Octauo die
Nouembris, Anno Regni nostri vicesimo.

The same in English.

A Charter graunted for the behalfe of the Marchants of Colen [Footnote:
Cologne.] in the twentieth yeere of Henry the third, confirmed by King
Edward the first, as it is extant in the roule of Charters, in the
eighteenth yeere of King Edward the first.

The King vnto Archbishops &c. greeting. [Sidenote: The ancient custome of
the Coloners Gildhall in London.] Be it knowen vnto you, that wee haue
quite claimed, and for vs and our heires released our welbeloued the
Citizens of Colen and their marchandize, from the payment of those two