TEXT:
[King Louis VII].... to all the burghers of St Martin of Chateauneuf, both those present and those to come, we gave and conceded that neither we nor our successors will seek money from them by force, nor will we implead them concerning usury, dishonorable income, or any multiplication of their money [nec causabimus eos de usura neque de turpi lucro neque de aliqua multiplicatione pecunie sue]. And [we grant] that if it should happen that they offend us in other matters, neither we nor any of our successors will burden [gravabimus] them thence, so long as they shall agree to make satisfaction to us in Tours, in the house of the Treasurer [of St. Martin]. Truly after this agreement [conventio] had been made, the aforesaid burghers gave 30,000 shillings to us as a sign of their good will [bona nobis voluntate dederunt XXX millia solidorum].
SOURCE:
A. Giry, Les établissements de Rouen: études sur l'histoire
des institutions municipales, 2 vols. (Paris: F. Vieweg, 1883),
1:190 n. 1. Translated from the Latin by Richard Barton.