39
S 1092

King Edward declares that he confirms his previous grant of land at Fordwich, Kent, to St Augustine's. [A.D. 1053 x 1066]

Archive: Canterbury, St Augustine's

Eadward cyng gret Stigande arceb' 7 Harold eorl 7 Osweard 7 ealle mine þegenas on Cent freonlice, 7 ic cyðe eow þæt ic eom þæs gecnawe þæt ic geuðe Criste 7 sancte Augustine 7 þan halgan þær binnan swa micel landes binnan Fordwic for minre saule swa ic me sylf þer hafde, swa full 7 swa forð swa it me sylfan on honde stod on eallan þingan. Nu wille ic þat hit licge into þan halgan minstre, eall swa ic hit ær þider in geuðe, 7 ic nelle geþafian þat ænig man mine gyefe geutige, 7 ic wille habban fullne dom of þam menn þe mine swutelinge awængnian wolde þe ic þer to gegyefen hafde.

Edition: Charters of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, and Minster-in-Thanet, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 4 (Oxford: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 134-5 (no. 39).