Iohannes D(e)i gratia arex Angl(ie) dominus Hybern(ie) dux Norm(annie) Aquit(anie) et com(es) And(egauie) archiepiscopis, episcopis, abb(at)ibus, comitibus, baronibus, iustic(iis), vic(ecomitibus) et omnibus ministris et fidelibus suis salutem.a  Sciatis nos concessisse et presenti carta nostra confirmasse Henrico filio Heruei q(uod) h(a)b(e)at forestam suam in Teisedal’ cum omnibus libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus suis sic(ut) aliquis antecessorum suorum eam unquam melius et liberius habuit tempore regis Henrici aui patris nostri, et prohibemus ne quis in eam venet(ur) absque assensu suo contra hanc libertatem suam super forisfacturam nostram sic(ut) carta reg(is) Henr(ici) patris nostri rationabiliter testatur. T(estibus) Will(el)mo de bStoteuill’b, Will(el)mo Briwerr’, Hug(one) Bard’, Hug(one) de Neuill’, cSim(one) de Pateshill’, Rob(erto) de Veteri Ponte, Rob(erto) de Rosc.  Dat' per man(um) dSymon(onis)d archid(iaconi) eWellen’e apud Carleol’, xxi. die Febr(uarii) fregni nostri annof secundo. 

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Notification that the the king has granted and by this his present charter confirmed to Henry fitz Hervey that he may hold his forest in Teesdale with all its liberties and free customs as it was held by his ancestors in the time of King Henry I, the grandfather of the king’s father, as set out in a charter of Henry II.