The purpose of this note is to make available the text of an original early thirteenthcentury royal confirmation charter recently (re-)discovered by the author in the archives of Ushaw College, Co. Durham, along with a concise commentary concerning the document’s historical context and wider significance. The royal charter was recorded (without a reference number) by Martin Snape in his edition of the acta of the bishops of Durham, but it has otherwise escaped the attention of historians. The card catalogue in the College’s special collections search room lists the charter as ‘MS 66’, as does a typewritten handlist that would seem to have been compiled by the late Ian (A.I.) Doyle (of Durham University) and Father Michael Sharratt (of Ushaw College), and which is now kept in the reading room of Palace Green Library. Neither of these lists has ever been published, making them difficult to access for researchers outside of Durham. Similarly, there is no known record of either the charter’s provenance or how/when it came to Ushaw, though it is possible that it might once have belonged to the medieval monastic archives of Durham Cathedral Priory. Hopefully future research stimulated by this note will shed more light on this subject.

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达勒姆 Ushaw 学院约翰国王的原始宪章 (Ushaw MS 66)

本说明的目的是提供作者最近（重新）在达勒姆 Ushaw 学院档案中发现的 13 世纪早期皇家确认宪章的原文，以及关于该文件历史背景和更广泛的意义。皇家宪章由马丁·斯内普 (Martin Snape) 记录在他的达勒姆主教学报中（没有参考编号），但它却没有引起历史学家的注意。学院特别馆藏搜索室的卡片目录将宪章列为“MS 66”，还有一份似乎由已故的 Ian (AI) Doyle（达勒姆大学）和 Michael Sharratt 神父（来自达勒姆大学）编写的打字手清单。 Ushaw College），现在保存在宫殿绿色图书馆的阅览室。这两个列表都没有公布过，这使得达勒姆以外的研究人员很难获得它们。同样，没有关于宪章出处或如何/何时来到 Ushaw 的已知记录，尽管它可能曾经属于达勒姆大教堂修道院的中世纪修道院档案。希望本笔记激发的未来研究将对该主题有更多的了解。