In the name of the holy and individual Trinity, Amen. Philip by the grace of God king of the French. Let everyone, both present and future, know that we have given and conceded to our burghers of Poitiers that all burghers who live in Poitiers and all those who afterwards come there to live shall be utterly immune and free from customary duties on sales and tolls, saving our rights of exercitus, equitatione, the taille, and all our other judicial rights. Moreover, we conceded to them who live or will live there in our domain that the fairs of Poitiers shall be held from the first Sunday in Lent until the Sunday of Mid-Lent [medie quadragesimae], with this situation and constitution, namely that all merchants, both buyers and sellers who do not live in our domain but come to our fairs of Poitiers, shall owe twelve pennies for each measure of cloth of green, brown, scarlet, red, or any other color [de singulis pannis viridibus, brunetis, escarlatis, rubicondis et aliis hujusmodi tinctis] that they which they buy in that fair. Concerning other measures of cloth, such as banners [stanfortibus], woollens [sagiis], yards/shear-blades [virgatis], coarse woollens [burellis] or anything else, each seller or buyer shall owe six pennies for each measure. Foreign merchants who do not live in our domain and sell for retail measures of linen [lineos] or wool [laneos] cloth, or fur, shall give two pennies from each pound of pennies [that they sell] for the duration of the fair. Once the fair has ended, the merchants who do not live in our domain shall pay the ancient customs, namely a halfpenny [singulos obolos] from each shilling. So that this may obtain perpetual strength, we confirmed this document with the authority of our seal and with our signature [regii nominis karactere] added below. Done at Châtellerault in the year 1214 from the Incarnation of the Lord, in the 35th year of our reign, with those present in our palace whose names and signs are added below.
With no dapifer
Sign of Guy the butler
Sign of Bartholomew the chamberlain
Sign of Drogo the constable
Given with the chancellorship vacant
Source: Recueil des actes de Philippe Auguste, v. 3, p. 484-485,
no. 1341. Translated from the Latin by Richard Barton.