Henry by the grace of God king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and of Aquitaine, and count of Anjou, to his holy beloved in Christ the abbot of St Edmund, greeting. We do not believe that it has been excised from your memory how Lewis de Gerardville and Petronilla his wife gave to the Friars Minor on account of the honour of God and reverence for the Apostolic See (and also for our salvation) our own farm in your town of St Edmund by Gilbert de Preston our justiciar. We have established this to remain with our letters sent in the forty-second year of our reign, for which we all knew that your convent would receive them kindly in the same town by the previous apostolic mandate, and by the instruction you have received in strict obedience. But now we make you to be certain that by the accustomed deliberation of our council and by the common consent of our sworn councillors, we have ratified our recorded approbation; and we do not want anything to be impaired or changed, but for it to be promoted from day to day to the fortunate end of its consummation; and we wish that this would be maintained and favoured by our heirs and successors the kings of England. If we should hear of anyone bringing an impediment or inconvenience to the said friars or the aforesaid place, we shall cause them to be punished and compelled in a fitting and just way, impartially and without difficulty. Wherefore we ask and require your devotion, out of love, forasmuch as you should take care to thus love, favour, promote and protect the said friars and the aforesaid place, and to show yourselves friendly and peaceable towards their friends and benefactors; and that by your merit you may be able to obtain an abundance of divine blessing and the full grace of the king's favour. Witness the king at Westminster, on the twenty-third day of February in the forty-third year of our reign.