A.D. 1006 for 1016. Edward, son of King Æthelred, to St Peter's Abbey, Ghent; undertaking to restore land at Lewisham, Greenwich and Woolwich, Kent. Latin.
Archive: Ghent, St Peter's
MS: Ghent, Archives de l'Etat à Gand, Abbaye de Saint-Pierre à Gand, Charters, no. 96 (s. xi med.; Keynes 1991/1, pl. I, opp. p. 179; Saint-Genois 1842, opp. p. 238)
Printed: van Lokeren, pp. 72-3 (no. 96), Gysseling and Koch, Diplomata, pp. 186-7 (no. 80); Keynes 1991, p. 201.
Comments: Saint-Genois 1842, p. 242; Round 1899, p. 501 (no. 1374); Oppermann 1928, pp. 104-5; Dhondt 1940, pp. 129-30, authentic and original; Grierson 1941, p. 95, authentic; Campbell 1949, p. lxiv, n. 3, spurious; Barlow 1970, p. 36, authentic; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 296 n. 2, doubtless spurious, but reflecting tradition at Ghent; Keynes 1991/1, pp. 177-81, MS written in 1040s.
A.D. 1042. King Edward to Ordgar, his faithful minister; grant of a half hide (mansa) at Littleham, Devon. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Sherborne (ex Horton)
MS: BL Add. 46487, 29r-30r (s. xii med.)
Printed: K 1332; Davidson 1883/1; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 53; O'Donovan, Sherborne, no. 21; Hooke 1994, p. 200, bounds only.
Comments: Davidson 1883/1, pp. 150-6, bounds describe modern parish; PN Devon, p. 590 n.; Forsberg 1950, p. 43, on bounds; Finberg, ECDC, no. 59; Oleson 1955, p. 154, authentic; Oleson 1956, may be genuine; Hart 1970/1, p. 22, on rubric; Keynes 1980, p. 27 n. 41, p. 126 n. 136; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. xxiii, xxix, 76-7, authentic; Hooke 1990/1, p. 194, on topography and assessment; Hooke 1994, pp. 200-3.
A.D. 1043. King Edward to Ælfstan, his minister; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Sevington in Leigh Delamere, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MS: BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 16v-17r (s. xiii)
Printed: K 767; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 53-6; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 20; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 142.
Comments: PN Worcs., p. 35, identifies as in Wilts.; Grundy, Wilts. 1920, p. 106, does not refer to Sevenhampton, Wilts.; Darlington 1955, p. 65; Oleson 1955, p. 155; Finberg, ECW, no. 333, authentic, bounds are those of Sevington in Grittleton; Barlow 1970, p. 75, on witness-list; HRH, p. 233, subscriptions are consistent; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 142, probably authentic, perhaps drawn up at Abingdon.
A.D. 1043. King Edward to Coventry Abbey; confirmation of privileges and of land, as granted by Leofric, dux, at Southam, Grandborough, Bishops Itchington, Honington, Kings Newnham, Ufton, Chadshunt, Priors Hardwick, Chesterton, Wasperton, Snohham, Birdingbury, Marston in Wolston, Long Marston, Ryton, Walsgrave on Sowe, Warwicks.; Salwarpe, Worcs.; Easton, Ches.; Kilsby and Winwick, Northants.; Burbage, Barwell, Scraptoft and Packington, Leics. [incorporating a privilege of Pope Alexander] Latin.
Archive: Coventry
MSS: 1. BL Add. 32100, 11rv (s. xvi; incomplete)
2. BL Add. 32100, 68r-69v (s. xvi)
3. BL Add. 32100, 74v-75r (s. xvi)
4. BL Add. 32100, 114v-115r (s. xvi)
5. BL Lansdowne 400, 47v-48v (s. xvii)
6. PRO Ch.R. 51 Hen. III, m. 8
7. PRO Ch.R. 19 Edw. II, no. 3
8. PRO Ch.R. 22 Edw. III, no. 5
9. PRO E. 164/21, 75v (s. xv; incomplete)
10. Bodleian, Dodsworth 10, 78v-80r (s. xvii)
11. Bodleian, Dodsworth 39, 103r-104v (s. xvii)
12. Bodleian, Dodsworth 66, 137v-139r (s. xvii; incomplete)
13. Bodleian, Dugdale 4, pp. 92-4 (s. xvii)
14. Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Birthplace Lib., 'Gregory Leiger-Book', pp. 20-3 (s. xiv)
15. Original Inspeximus of 51 Hen. III (formerly Phillipps MS 27963)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 303-4; K 916 ex MSS 5, 9; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 191 ex MS 9; Thorpe, pp. 351-4; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 69.
Comments: Napier and Stevenson, pp. 94-5, 100, spurious; Harmer, Writs, p. 37, suspicious; Lancaster 1954, spurious; Oleson 1955, p. 154, spurious; Finberg, ECWM, no. 160 (pp. 69, 129), spurious; Chaplais 1962, pp. 92-5, forged by Osbert de Clare (= 1981, XVIII pp. 92-5); Davis 1971, pp. 539-45, forged in Stephen's reign; HRH, p. 234, spurious, subscriptions are corrupt and probably inconsistent; Hart, ECNE, no. 23 (pp. 64, 71-2, 88, 129), spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 113 n. 92, p. 126 n. 136, spurious; Keynes 1988, p. 198, witness-list from a genuine charter of 1040s, with some 'later' names added, proem also in S 1001; Hooke 1990, pp. 333-4; Brandt 1994, p. 38, spurious.
A.D. 1044. King Edward to Ælfwine, bishop (of Winchester); grant of 30 hides (mansae) at Witney, Oxon. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 45r-46r (s. xii)
Printed: K 775; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 23.
Comments: Grundy, Oxon., pp. 82-5, on bounds; Oleson 1955, p. 151, authentic; PN Oxon., i. 9, 11, ii. 316, 319, 323, 328, 333, 490; Gelling 1967, pp. 92, 102-3, on bounds; Hart 1970/1, p. 28 (no. 77), authentic; Gelling 1978, pp. 202-5, on bounds; Gelling, ECTV, no. 294, authentic, cf. S 771; Keynes 1980, p. 126 n. 136, on formulation; Keynes 1988, p. 198 n. 72, proem also in S 1000; Bailey 1989/1, on detail of bounds; Blair and Millard 1992, p. 344; Lawson 1993, p. 237, on formulation; Blair 1994, pp. 17, 130-2, on estate, with map p. 131; cf. S 771, covering the same estate.
A.D. 1044. King Edward to Abbot Richard and St Peter's, Ghent; confirmation and grant of privileges and of land at Lewisham, Greenwich, Woolwich, Mottingham, Coombe, Kent; with Æschore (possibly Ashour, Kent), Æffehaga; Wiggenden, Sharrington and Sandhurst, Kent; also part of the land in London called Wermanecher. Latin.
Archive: Ghent, St Peter's
MSS: 1. Ghent, U.L., 536, 246v-248r = pp. 482-5 (s. xv)
2. Ghent, U.L., 536, 161r-263r = pp. 511-15 (s. xv)
3. Ghent, Rijksarchief, Archives de l'État à Gand, Abbaye de Saint-Pierre à Gand, 1st ser., no. 7, 11r-12v (s. xiii)
4. Ghent, Rijksarchief, Archives de l'État à Gand, Abbaye de Saint-Pierre à Gand, Chartes, no. 124 (s. xiii)
5. PRO Chart. Ant. R. 19, no. 10 (s. xiii)
6. London, Soc. Ant., 167, pt 2, 3r-4v (s. xviii)
7. London, Soc. Ant., 204, 59r-60v (s. xviii)
8. Bodleian, Dodsworth 25, 57v-59v (s. xvii)
9. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, Episcopal register 1, 24v-25r (s. xiv)
Printed: Mon. Angl., ii. 890-901 (incorrect pagination); K 771 ex 5; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi. 988 (no. 2); Thorpe, pp. 357-61 ex 5; van Lokeren, no. 124; Johnson 1948, i. 32-3; Conway Davies 1957, pp. 175-8 ex 5.
Comments: Saint-Genois 1842, pp. 243-6; Stevenson 1914, p. 702 and n. 61, spurious; Page 1923, pp. 134-6; Oppermann 1928, pp. 282-7; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 324-5; Dhondt 1940, pp. 130-1, 147-59, authentic; Johnson 1948, pp. 31-2; Ekwall 1954, p. 38, on Wermanecher; Harmer, Writs, pp. 82, 560, 571, spurious; Oleson 1955, p. 150, spurious; Chaplais 1962, pp. 92-5, forged by Osbert de Clare in 12th century (= 1981, XVIII pp. 92-5); Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 368, forgery of mid 12th century; Witney 1976, pp. 220-1; HRH, p. 233, spurious, subscriptions not consistent; Gelling, ECTV, no. 238, spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 113 n. 92, spurious; Keynes 1988, pp. 198, 206, spurious, although forger had access to a genuine charter of mid-1040s; Keynes 1991/1, pp. 180-1, spurious.
A.D. 1044. King Edward to Leofric, his chaplain; grant of 7 hides (mansi) at Dawlish, Devon. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Exeter
MS: Exeter, D. & C., 2526 (s. xi; OS Facs., ii, Exeter 12)
Printed: Davidson 1881, pp. 108-11, with translation, pp. 111-13; Davidson 1883, pp. 292-5; Hooke 1994, p. 204 (bounds only).
Comments: Davidson 1881, pp. 113-17, on bounds; Davidson 1883, p. 292; Finberg, ECDC, no. 60; PN Devon, p. 491; Bishop 1955, p. 196, possibly authentic; Oleson 1955, p. 154, authentic; Chaplais 1966, pp. 26-8 (no. 26), probably original, traces of Frankish formulation which the scribe misunderstood (= 1981, XV pp. 26-8); Stenton 1971, p. 425 n. 3, cited, on witness-list; HRH, p. 237, possibly genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Blake 1974, pp. 48-9; Keynes 1988, p. 213 n. 167, apparent original, written by Exeter scribe; Hooke 1990/1, p. 194, on topography and assessment; Dumville 1993, pp. 133, 134, possibly written slightly later than 1044; Hooke 1994, pp. 203-7, on bounds.
A.D. 1044. King Edward to Orc, his faithful minister; grant of 5 perticae at Abbots Wootton in Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abbotsbury
MS: Dorchester, Dorset R.O., D. 124 (s. xi med.; OS Facs., ii, Earl of Ilchester, 3)
Printed: K 772, without bounds; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 21, ter ex K.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 427, 576; Oleson 1955, p. 150, spurious; Stenton 1955, p. 85 n. 1, may be contemporary; Oleson 1956, doubtful; Finberg, ECW, no. 625, authentic; Hart 1964, pp. 161-3, on bounds; HRH, p. 233, doubtful, a supposed original but subscriptions are inconsistent; Keynes 1988, p. 213 n. 167, apparent original; Keynes 1989, pp. 208, 220, 228; Dumville 1993, pp. 133, 134, on script; Lawson 1993, pp. 169, 239, cited.
A.D. 1044. King Edward to Ordgar, his faithful minister; grant of 1 pertica beneath Elddin (at Illand in Northill, Cornwall). Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church (ex a West Country archive)
MS: BL Cotton Aug. ii. 59 (s. xi med.; BM Facs., iv. 26)
Printed: K 770; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 21 bis; Hooke 1994, p. 62, bounds only.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Oleson 1955, p. 150, doubtful; Stenton 1955, p. 85 n. 1, may be contemporary; Oleson 1956, doubts if contemporary; Finberg 1960, p. 32 (no. 96a); Hart 1970/1, p. 22, on endorsement; Bishop 1971, p. xxiii and n. 5, on script, may not be contemporary; Keynes 1980, p. 33 n. 56, p. 64 n. 114, on formulation; Keynes 1988, p. 213 n. 67, apparent original; Dumville 1993, p. 133, treats as contemporary; Hooke 1994, pp. 62-4, on bounds.
A.D. 1044. King Edward to Old Minster, Winchester; grant of 15 hides (mansae) at Pitminster, Somerset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 28v-29r (s. xii)
Printed: K 774; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 22.
Translated: Barlow 1970, p. 159, in part.
Comments: Oleson 1955, p. 150, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 531, authentic, for some boundary marks cf. S 440, 475; Barlow 1970, p. 159; Hart 1970/1, p. 27 (no. 53), authentic; HRH, p. 233, possibly genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 44 n. 77, p. 126 n. 136, on formulation.
A.D. 1045. King Edward to Ælfwine, bishop of Winchester; grant of 8 hides (mansae) at Hinton Ampner, Hants. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 81rv (s. xii)
Printed: K 780; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 25.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, doubtful or spurious; Grundy, Hants. 1926, pp. 139-42, on bounds; Oleson 1955, p. 151, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 162, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 33 (no. 140), authentic; cf, S 942.
A.D. 1045. King Edward to Ælfwine, bishop of Winchester; grant of 7 hides (cassati) at Millbrook, Hants. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Ch. viiii. 9 (s. xi med.; BM Facs., iv. 31)
2. BL Add. 15350, 79v-80r (s. xii)
3. BL Add. 15350, 80r (s. xii; bounds only)
Printed: K 781; Earle, p. 246, bounds only.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 contemporary; Grundy, Hants. 1926, pp. 242-4, on bounds; Oleson 1955, p. 151, authentic; Burgess 1964, pp. 4-7; Finberg, ECW, no. 163, authentic; Chaplais 1965, p. 57 n. 81, p. 60 n. 105, compares script with that of S 994 (= 1973, p. 38 n. 81, p. 42 n. 105); Barlow 1970, p. 331, essentially identical to S 1009, except for beneficiary; Hart 1970/1, p. 33 (no. 138), authentic; Bishop 1971, p. 23; HRH, p. 233, probably genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 126 n. 136, on formulation; Keynes 1988, p. 213 n. 167, apparent original; cf. S 1009.
A.D. 1045. King Edward to Godwine, dux; grant of 7 hides (cassati) at Millbrook, Hants. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 78v-79v (s. xii)
Printed: (unprinted)
Comments: Finberg, ECW, no. 164, authentic, identical with S S 1008, but a different beneficiary; Barlow 1970, pp. 331-2, fabricated, presumably based on S 1008, difficult to account for fabrication; Hart 1970/1, p. 33 (no. 137); Hough 1996, on element in bounds.
A.D. 1045. King Edward to Thorth, his minister; grant of 2.5 hides (mansae) at Ditchampton, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Wilton
MS: BL Harley 436, 53v-54r (s. xiv)
Printed: Hoare, Reg. Wilton, pp. 29-31; K 778.
Comments: Hoare, Modern Wilts., ii. 86; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 290-2, on bounds; Darlington 1955, pp. 80, 92; Oleson 1955, p. 151, doubtful; PN Oxon., i. 105, on element in bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 335, authentic; HRH, p. 233, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 126 n. 136, on formulation; Keynes 1988, p. 199 n. 78, issued about the same time as S 1011; Hough 1996, on element in bounds.
A.D. 1045 (London, 1 Aug.). King Edward to Westminster Abbey, Second Charter; confirmation of privileges. Latin.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 58 (s. xii1; BM Facs., iv. 30)
2. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 30r-31v (s. xiii)
3. BL Cotton Titus A. viii, 11rv (s. xiv)
4. Westminster, D. & C., W.A. Muniment Bk 11, 40v-41r (s. xiv)
5. Westminster, D. & C., W.A.M. 12752 (s. xv; extract)
Printed: K 779; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 295 (no. 5); Thorpe, pp. 362-6; Scholz 1961, pp. 474-5.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, doubtful if contemporary; Robinson 1909, p. 14, spurious; Robertson, Charters, p. 433, spurious; Harmer, Writs, p. 59 and n. 1, spurious; Oleson 1955, p. 151, spurious; Scholz 1961, spurious, main text derived from a charter of Philip I for France for Saint-Denis, dated 1 Aug. 1068; Chaplais 1962, pp. 91-5, spurious, MS 1 shows no sign of sealing and may not be pretended original, forged by Osbert de Clare before 1139 (= 1981, XVIII, pp. 91-5); HRH, p. 233, spurious, but subscriptions are probably consistent; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, forgery; Gelling, ECTV, no. 239, spurious; Keynes 1988, pp. 198-9, 206, fabrication but witness-list derives from authentic charter of early 1045, discusses subscription of Wulfwig, cancellarius.
A.D. 1045. King Edward to Old Minster, Winchester; grant of 8 hides (cassati) at South Stoneham, Hants. Latin with English bonds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 66r-67r (s. xii)
Printed: K 776; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 24.
Comments: Grundy, Hants. 1927, pp. 249-51, identifies as North Stoneham; Forsberg 1950, pp. 216-17, on bounds, identifies as South Stoneham; Harmer, Writs, p. 550, probably authentic, dated after 22 April 1045; Oleson 1955, p. 151, authentic; Burgess 1964, pp. 9-12; Finberg, ECW, no. 161, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 31 (no. 115), authentic; HRH, p. 233, probably genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Biddle et al. 1976, p. 270; Gosling 1987, on element in bounds; Currie 1995, pp. 111-15, 123, on bounds; Russell 1996, on bounds.
A.D. 1046. King Edward to Ælfwine, bishop of Winchester; grant of 6 hides (mansae) at Hoddington, Hants. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Ch. xii. 76 (s. xiv2)
2. BL Add. 15350, 114v-115r (s. xii)
Printed: K 783; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 26.
Comments: Grundy, Hants. 1927, pp. 277-80, bounds describe Upton Grey; Oleson 1955, p. 151, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 165, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 37 (no. 203), authentic.
Note. MS 1 written by same scribe as S 312 MS 1 and S 804 MS 1.
A.D. 1046. King Edward to Athelstan, his faithful minister; grant of 3 hides (cassati) at Ayston, Rutland. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Peterborough
MSS: 1. London, Soc. Ant. 60, 32r-33r (s. xii)
2. Peterborough, D. & C., 1, 128rv (s. xiii; no bounds)
Printed: K 784; Mon Angl. (rev. edn), i. 385 (no. 18).
Comments: Oleson 1955, p. 151, authentic; PN Oxon., i. 216, on a personal name in bounds; Hart, ECEE, no. 161, authentic, with discussion on bounds contributed by Finberg; Stenton 1970, p. 294, on detail of bounds; Finberg 1972, pp. 453-4, on place-name; HRH, p. 233, probably genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 11 n. 16, on formulation; Cox 1989, p. 138, on bounds; Hart 1992, pp. 197-8, authentic, discusses estate history.
A.D. 1046. King Edward to the community of St Ouen, Rouen; grant of land at Mersea, Essex. Latin.
Archive: Rouen, St Ouen
MSS: 1. Chelmsford, Essex R.O., Z18/1 (s. xv)
2. Rouen, Arch. dép., Seine inférieure, 14. H. 145 (s. xv)
Printed: Morant 1768, i. 426 n. F ex MS 1; Hart 1957/1, pp. 23-4 ex Morant, with translation, pp. 24-5; Matthew 1962, pp. 143-5 ex MS 2; Hart 1981, pp. 99-100, ex MS 1, with translation, p. 101; Hart 1992, pp. 504-7, with translation, ex MS 1.
Comments: Laver 1923, on bounds; PN Essex, p. lx, on bounds; Levison 1948, p. 212, some 10th-century formulation; Hart 1957/1, pp. 23-5, 43-5; Matthew 1962, pp. 24, 143-9, unimpeachable; Hart, ECEE, pp. 251-2; Newton 1970, pp. 289-90, on MS 1; Hart, ECE, no. 63, authentic, discusses MSS; HRH, p. 237, probably genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Campbell 1978, p. 269 n. 54 (= 1986, pp. 20-1-2 n. 54); Keynes 1980, p. 126 n. 136; Hart 1981; Crummy 1982, on bounds; Boyden 1983, on estate history; Hart 1992, pp. 495-508.
A.D. 1046. King Edward to Old Minster, Winchester; grant of land at Bransbury, Hants., and at Forde and Hertone saci. Latin.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MSS: 1. BL Harley Ch. 43 C. 9 (s. xiv)
2. BL Harley 596, 20v-21r (s. xvii; ex 1)
3. PRO Ch.R. 5 Edw. III, no. 85
Printed: K 1335; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 54.
Comments: Oleson 1955, p. 154, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 166, spurious, suggests Forde may be Forde in Priors Dean and Hertone saci may be Barton Stacey, both in Hants.; Keynes 1980, p. 89 n. 23, forged on the basis of S 867, cf. also S 804, incorporates passage derived ultimately frm Domesday Book.
A.D. 1048. King Edward to Tofig, his comes; grant of 2 hides (territoria) at Berghe. Latin.
Archive: Burton
MS: Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 184v = p. 368 (s. xiii med.)
Printed: Barlow 1970, pp. 332-3; Hart, ECNE, pp. 248-50; Sawyer, Burton, no. 38.
Comments: Barlow 1970, p. 332, witness-list is sound, beneficiary is probably a thegn; HRH, p. 237, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, pp. 250-2, probably authentic, may refer to Bergh Apton in Norfolk; Sawyer, Burton, pp. 74-5, probably authentic.
A.D. 1049 (Winchester). King Edward to Ælfwine, his militaris; grant of 1 ploughland (carruga) at Hambledon, Hants. Latin.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 111v (s. xii)
Printed: K 786.
Comments: Oleson 1955, p. 151, spurious; Finberg, ECW, no. 167, authentic.
A.D. 1049. King Edward to Eadulf, his faithful minister; grant of 1.5 perticae at Tregony and at Trerice in St Dennis, Cornwall. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church, Canterbury (ex Bodmin, St Petroc's)
MS: Canterbury, D. & C., Chart. Ant. C. 1281 (Red Book no. 19; s. xi med.; OS Facs., i. 24)
Printed: K 787, omits bounds; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 27 ex K; Finberg 1962, bounds only; Hooke 1994, p. 65, bounds only
Comments: Finberg, ECDC, no. 97; Oleson 1955, p. 151, authentic; Finberg 1962; Chaplais 1966, pp. 24-5 (no. 24), contemporary script, probably an original (= 1981, XV, pp. 24-5); Barlow 1970, p. 88 n. 2, some obviously unauthentic features, but witness-list is sound; Stenton 1971, p. 425 n. 2, cited; HRH, p. 234, probably original, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 27 n. 41, p. 126 n. 136, may be regional product; Padel, CoPNE, pp. 8-9; Keynes 1988, p. 213 n. 167, apparent original; Herring and Hooke 1993, on bounds and estate history; Hooke 1994, pp. 64-8, on bounds.
A.D. 1050. King Edward to the church of St Mary, Abingdon; grant of 8 hides (mansae) on the river Kennet (at Leverton in Hungerford, Berks.), previously held by Eadric, rusticus. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 109v-110r (s. xiii)
2. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 114v-115 (s. xiii; no bounds)
3. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 133r (s. xii; no bounds)
Printed: K 792; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 452-4, 473-7; Earle, p. 394, bounds only; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 28; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 145.
Comments: Stevenson 1896, p. 732 n. 1, authentic; Grundy, Berks. 1926, pp. 61-3, on bounds; Oleson 1955, p. 152, doubtful; HRH, p. 234 and n. 1, subscriptions are consistent, apart from Abbot Ordric of Abingdon; PN Berks., i. 11, iii. 659, same bounds as in S 855; Barlow 1979, pp. 154-5, on witness-list; Gelling, ECTV, no. 132, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 11 n. 16, on formulation; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 145, probably a very early forgery.
A.D. 1050. King Edward joins the two dioceses of Devon and Cornwall and transfers the seat of the united bishopric to Exeter. Latin.
Archive: Exeter
MSS: 1. Exeter, D. & C., 2072 (s. xi med.; OS Facs., ii, Exeter 13; Barlow 1970, pl. 7, opp. p. 136)
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 59, 227v-228v (s. xiv)
3. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 256-9 (s. xvi)
4. Exeter, D. & C., 2105 (s. xiii)
5. Exeter, D. & C., 2408 (s. xvi)
6. Exeter, D. & C., 3505, 166v-167v (s. xiv)
7. Exeter, D.R.O., E/R1, 103r-104r (s. xiii)
8. BL Cotton Cleop. E. i, 94rv (s. xvii)
9. BL Harley 358, 33v-34v (s. xvi)
10. BL Lansdowne 447, 41v-42r (s. xvii)
11. PRO Ch.R. 36 Edw. III, no. 16
12. PRO Conf. R. 1 Hen. VIII, pt 5, no. 13
13. PRO Conf. R. 2 Hen. VIII, pt 1, no. 2
14. PRO Conf. R. 1 Mary, pt 1, no. 1
15. PRO Conf. R. 2 Eliz., pt 3, no. 1
16. London, Soc. Ant., 128, 153r (s. xviii; incomplete)
17. Bodleian, Dugdale 11, 4v-5v (s. xvii)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 229-30; Hickes, Diss. Epist., p. 16 n.; K 791; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 536-7 (no. 10); Thorpe, pp. 365-8; HS, i. 693-5; Hingeston-Randolph 1889, pp. 485-7 ex MS 7; Leland, Itinerary, i. 231, in part; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 27 bis; Dalton 1925, pp. 379-80, ex MS 6; Councils and Synods, no. 71 (pp. 528-33).
Comments: Stevenson 1896, p. 732 n. 1, authentic; Chambers 1933, p. 6, authentic; Oleson 1955, p. 151, authentic; Stenton 1955, p. 25; Finberg, ECDC, no. 64; Finberg 1964, p. 114, on background; Chaplais 1966, pp. 28-31 (no. 27), an apparent original (= 1981, XV pp. 28-31); Barlow 1970, p. 179, cited; Stenton 1971, p. 467, cited; HRH, p. 234 and n. 1, probably original, subscriptions are consistent; Blake 1974, pp. 49-51; Barlow 1979, p. 35 n. 2, pp. 154-5; Councils and Synods, pp. 525-8; Keynes 1988, p. 213 n. 47, apparent original, written by Exeter scribe; Heyworth, Wanley, p. 191 n. 8; Olson 1989, p. 78; Hooke 1994, pp. 53-4, 187-8, with partial translation; Pelteret 1995, p. 169.
A.D. 1050. King Edward to Godwine, dux; grant of 4 hides (mansae) in the common land at Sandford-on-Thames, Oxon. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MS: BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 113r-114r (s. xiii)
Printed: K 793; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 466-9; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 30; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 144.
Comments: Grundy, Oxon., pp. 52-3, on bounds; Oleson 1955, p. 152, dubious; PN Oxon., i. 186, ii. 487; Finberg 1972, p. 493; HRH, p. 234 and n. 1, subscriptions are consistent; Barlow 1979, pp. 154-5, on witness-list; Gelling, ECTV, no. 296, authentic; Blair 1994, pp. 128, 198 n. 184, on estate; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 144, authentic.
A.D. 1052. King Edward to the church of St Mary, Abingdon; grant of 5 hides (cassati) at Chilton, Berks. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 110v-111r (s. xiii)
2. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 117v-118r (s. xiii; no bounds)
3. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 132v-133r (s. xii; no bounds)
4. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 201v-202r (s. xii; bounds only)
Printed: K 796; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 455-7; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 30; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 146.
Comments: Stevenson 1896, p. 732 n. 1; Grundy, Berks. 1924, pp. 64-7, on bounds; Oleson 1955, p. 152, dubious, date impossible for witness-list; HRH, p. 234 and n. 1, subscriptions probably consistent; PN Berks., ii. 497, iii. 752, probably spurious, bounds as in S 934; Barlow 1979, pp. 154-5, on witness-list; Gelling, ECTV, no. 133, spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 11 n. 16, on formulation; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 146, spurious.
A.D. 1053. King Edward to Lutrise (? Lutsige), his faithful minister; grant of a half hide (mansa) at Bashley, Hants. Latin.
Archive: Christchurch (Twynham)
MS: BL Cotton Tib. D. vi, 28r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 798.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, p. 247 n. 2, suspect; Oleson 1955, p. 152, dubious; Finberg, ECW, no. 170, authentic.
A.D. 1054. King Edward to the church of St Mary, Abingdon; grant of 4 hides (mansae) in the common land at Sandford-on-Thames, Oxon. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 114rv (s. xiii)
2. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 132rv (s. xii; no bounds)
3. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 202v (s. xii; bounds only)
Printed: K 800; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 469-72; Earle, pp. 394-5, bounds only; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 31 bis; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 147.
Comments: Stevenson 1896, p. 732 n. 1, authentic; Grundy, Oxon., pp. 52-3, on bounds; Harmer, Writs, p. 566, dated 1054 but attested by Eadsige, archbishop of Canterbury, who died in 1050; PN Oxon., i. 183, 186, ii. 487; Oleson 1955, p. 152, spurious; Finberg 1972, p. 493, on reference to common land; HRH, p. 234, doubtful, subscriptions are consistent with 1049 x 1050; Barlow 1979, pp. 154-5, on witnesses; Gelling, ECTV, no. 298, spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 11 n. 16, on formulation; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 147, spurious; cf. S 1022.
A.D. 1055. King Edward to St Mary's, Evesham; grant of 3 hides (cassati) at Upper Swell, Gloucs., in return for the abbot's gift of 6 marks of gold. The land had been forfeited by Erusius (? Earnsige), son of Oce. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Evesham
MSS: 1. London, College of Arms, Waiting Room (s. xi/xii; BA Facs., 35; Herald's Exhibition, plate 36)
2. BL Cotton Vesp. B. xxiv, 70v-71r (s. xii)
3. BL Harley 3763, 66r (s. xii; without bounds)
Printed: K 801 ex MS 3; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 32; Finberg, ECWM, pp. 72-3, bounds only, with translation, pp. 73-6, ex MS 2.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, doubtful or spurious; Herald's Exhibition, p. 49; Robertson, Charters, p. 463, date unacceptable; Harmer, Writs, p. 566, on date; Oleson 1955, p. 153, spurious; PN Gloucs., i. 14, 16, 17, 228, ii. 14; Finberg, ECWM, no. 171, spurious, discusses bounds, and p. 236; Barlow 1970, p. 142 n. 4, generally considered spurious, p. 180 n. 1, unacceptable in existing form; Keynes 1980, p. 126 n. 136, on formulation; Wormald 1988, no. 94; BA Facs., p. 10, spurious, date in MS 1 now burned away, perhaps in antiquity, witnesses point to 1062 x 1065. Single sheet now differs from cartulary copy in several respects, e.g. internal reference to Abbot Æthelwig instead of Manning, names of several witnesses omitted.
A.D. 1059. King Edward to Ealdred, bishop; grant of land at Traboe, Trevallack and Grugwith, all in St Keverne, and at Trewethey in St Martin-in-Meneage, Cornwall. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Exeter
MSS: 1. Exeter, D. & C., 2527 (s. xi med.; OS Facs., ii, Exeter 14)
2. BL Lansdowne 966, 74r-75r (s. xvii)
Printed: Davidson 1883, pp. 296-8; Earle, pp. 300-2; Hooke 1994, pp. 68-9, bounds only.
Comments: Davidson 1883, pp. 295-6, manifest copy; Finberg, ECDC, no. 99; Oleson 1955, p. 154, authentic; Chaplais 1966, p. 25 (no. 25), script may be s. xi2, perhaps late in century (= 1981, XV p. 25); HRH, p. 237, subscriptions are consistent with 1058; Padel, CoPNE, pp. 41, 43, 49, 55, 90, 197; Hooke 1994, pp. 68-9, and cf. pp. 45-52, on bounds; cf. S 832.
A.D. 1059. King Edward to St Denis; grant of land at Taynton, Oxon. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Paris, Saint-Denis
MSS: 1. Paris, Archives nationales, Cartons des rois, K. 19, no. 6 (? s. xi med.; BA Facs. 21; Barlow 1970, p. 6, opp. p. 105, in part; Blair 1994, p. 127)
2. Bodleian, Dugdale 11, 61v (s. xvii)
3. Paris, Archives nationales, LL 1156, 83r-84r (s. xiii)
4. Paris, Archives nationales, LL 1158, pp. 552-3 (s. xiii/xiv; Latin only)
Printed: Doublet 1625, pp. 831-2; Mon. Angl., ii. 965; Felibien 1706, Pièces just., pp. lxxxv-vi, no. 112; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi. 1077-8 (no. 2); Tardif 1866, pp. 171-2 (no. 277); Harmer, Writs, pp. 538-9 ex MS 1.
Translated: Brown 1984, pp. 130-1 (no. 157).
Comments: Douët D'Arcq, no. 9997; Stevenson 1891, p. 738; Harmer, Writs, pp. 35-7, 41, 244, MS 1 probably later copy of authentic diploma; Gelling 1953, pp. 243-5, on bounds; Stenton 1955, p. 85, authentic; PN Oxon., i. 4, 11, 14, 18, 19, ii. 366, 367, 384, 385, 389, 488-9; Chaplais 1966, p. 25, on subscription of Bishop Herman (= 1981, XV p. 25); Gelling, ECTV, no. 300, authentic basis, perhaps interpolated or edited, discusses some details of bounds; Keynes 1980, p. 26 n. 38, cited; Brown 1984, p. 130; Atsma and Vezin 1988, p. 233, cited; Keynes 1988, p. 213 n. 167, presumed original; BA Facs., pp. 7-8, MS 1 anomalous, but conceivably an original charter drawn up in unusual circumstances; Blair 1994, p. 104, cited; cf. S 1105, a writ authorizing Bishop Wulfwig to draw up this charter.
A.D. 1060. King Edward to Peterborough Abbey; confirmation of land at Fiskerton, Lincs., bequeathed to the abbey by Leofgifu, a woman of London, but claimed by Queen Edith. Latin.
Archive: Peterborough
MSS: 1. Peterborough, D. & C., in frame (s. xi2)
2. BL Egerton 2733, 34v-37r (s. xiii)
3. London, Soc. Ant., 60, 27v-28r (s. xii)
4. Peterborough, D. & C., 1, 111rv (s. xiii)
5. Peterborough, D. & C., 5, 22r (s. xiii)
Printed: Gunton 1686, pp. 140-1; K 808; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 385 (no. 19); Thorpe, pp. 385-7; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 36 bis.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 698 n. 44, doubtful or spurious; Stenton 1924, p. xli; Harmer, Writs, p. 37, suspicious; Oleson 1955, p. 153, authentic; Hart, ECEE, no. 158 and pp. 105-6, probably forged after Conquest; Davies 1972, p. 472, dubious; Keynes 1988, pp. 204-5 n. 115, p. 206, spurious; Wormald 1988, no. 91.
c. A.D. 1062 (30 Nov.). King Edward to Ramsey Abbey; confirmation of privileges and of land (a) at Upwood with Raveley, Hemingford (Grey), Hunts.; Walsoken, Norfolk; Sawtrey, Hunts.; Hilgay, Wells, Brancaster, Norfolk; Ripton, Stukeley, Hunts.; Kingston (Wistow) with Raveley and Bury, Warboys, Slepe (St Ives), Hunts.; Chatteris, Elsworth, Cambs.; Houghton, Witton, Ellington, Bythorn, Brington, Hunts.; Whiston, Isham, Northants.; Weston, Hunts.; Graveley, Cambs.; Dillington, Hunts.; Great Staughton, Norfolk; Yelling, Hunts.; (b) and at Elton, Hunts.; Barnwell, Hemington, Northants.; East Elsworth, Girton, Cambs.; Therfield, Herts.; Shillington, Beds.; Westmill, Herts.; Offerton or Orfyridtune (lost) in Holland; Broughton, Hunts.; Bottisham, Cambs. [given by Æthelric, bishop of Dorchester]; (c) at Over, Barton, Knapwell, Cambs. [given by Eadnoth, bishop of Dorchester]; (d) at Oakley (? in St Ives, Hunts.) [given by Eadnoth, son of Godric]; (e) at Cranfield, Kempston, Clapham, Beds. [given by Æthelwine Swearte]; (f) at Wispington, Lincs.; Lawshall, Suffolk; Martin, Lincs.; Wathinworth [given by Leofsige, deacon]; (g) at Marham on the Hill, Lincs. [given by Leofsige's nepos]; (h) at Burwell, Cambs. [given by Ælfsige of Lampathe]; (i) at Quarrington, Lincs. [given by Iohol of Lincoln]; (j)and at Ringstead, Wimbotsham and Downham Market, Norfolk [given by King Harthacnut]. Latin.
Archive: Ramsey
MSS: 1. Huntingdon, Cambs. County R.O., SM27/465 (Acc. 2244) (s. xiv; original Inspeximus)
2. Huntingdon, Cambs. County R.O., SM27/465 (Acc. 970) (s. **; ex 1)
3. BL Add. 4936, 177r-179r (s. xviii)
4. BL Add. Ch. 33686 (s. xvi)
5. BL Cotton Otho B. xiv, 262r-263r (s. xiv)
6. BL Cotton Vesp. E. ii, 8r-10r (s. xiii)
7. BL Lansdowne 863, 50v-51r (s. xvi)
8. PRO Ch.R. 8 Edw. III, no. 29
9. PRO Conf. R. 3 Hen. VII, pt 5, no. 2
10. PRO Conf. R. 1 Hen. VIII, pt 6, no. 4
11. PRO E 132 1/1 (s. xiii/xiv)
12. PRO E 164/28, 168v-169v (s. xiv)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 236-8; Alford 1663, iii. 565-6; K 809 ex MS 12; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 559-60 (no. 9) ex MS 12; Thorpe, pp. 381-5; Hart and Lyons, Ramsey Cart., ii. 70-8 ex MSS 6, 8, 12; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 36 ter.
Comments: Stevenson 1896, p. 732 n. 1, spurious; Stevenson 1914, p. 702, late and clumsy fabrication; Robinson 1919, p. 24, questionable; Fowler 1920, no. 15; PN Beds., pp. 22, 24, 68, 75, 173; Harmer 1950, p. 346 n. 1, spurious, probably a 12th-century compilation; Harmer, Writs, pp. 60, 291, 473, spurious; Oleson 1955, p. 153, spurious; Chaplais 1962, pp. 92-5, forged by Osbert de Clare in 12th century (= 1981, XVIII pp. 92-5); Hart, ECEE, no. 47 (pp. 39, 52, 77, 95-6, 106), spurious; Hart, ECNE, no. 28, spurious; Gelling, ECTV, no. 8 (pp. 21, 92), spurious; Keynes 1988, pp. 198, 206, spurious; Wormald 1995, p. 128, bogus; Wormald 1996, p. 123, completely bogus.
A.D. 1060. King Edward to Westminster Abbey; grant of 10 hides (mansae) in the common land at Wheathampstead, Herts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. Hertford, Herts. R.O., D/ELw Z 22/4 (s. xi med.; BA Facs., 22)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 204rv (s. xiv)
Printed: PN Herts., p. 313, bounds only; Barlow 1970, pp. 334-5 ex MS 1.
Comments: PN Herts., p. 54 n.; Barlow 1970, pp. 333-4, seems to be original; Munby 1973, pp. 3-10; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, probably authentic; Rumble 1976-7, discussion of bounds; Harvey 1977, p. 347; Gelling, ECTV, no. 185, original; Keynes 1980, p. 109 n. 75, on formulation; Keynes 1988, p. 207 n. 126, p. 213 n. 167, apparent original; BA Facs., p. 8, appears to be original.
A.D. 1061. King Edward to Horton Abbey; grant of privileges. English.
Archive: Sherborne (ex Horton)
MS: BL Add. 46487, 31rv (s. xii)
Printed: K 1341; Thorpe, pp. 388-90, with translation; Robertson, Charters, no. 120 (pp. 220-3), with translation; O'Donovan, Sherborne, no. 22.
Comments: Robertson, Charters, p. 472; Finberg, ECW, no. 627, authentic; Whitelock 1966, p. 101, closely related to S 333; Barlow 1970, p. 135, doubtful; Keynes 1980, p. 126 n. 136, cited; PN Dorset, ii. 159; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. xxx, lix-xii, 78-80, perhaps genuine 11th-century adaptation of S 333, possibly drafted at Sherborne; Wormald 1992, p. 431, genuine.
A.D. 1061. King Edward to St Mary's, Rouen; grant of Ottery St Mary, Devon. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Rouen, St Mary's
MSS: 1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 227-9 (s. xvi)
2. Canterbury, D. & C., Chart. Ant. R. 51 (s. xiii1; BA Facs., 42; Rose-Troup 1939, pl. 9)
3. BL Harley 66, 143rv (s. xvii; <from Inspeximus of King Henry>)
4. BL Lansdowne 447, 47rv (s. xvii; incomplete)
5. PRO Pat. R. 4 Ric. II, pt 1, m. 3
6. Bodleian, Dodsworth 10, 80v-81r (s. xvii)
7. Rouen, Bibliothèque d'Étude, Rouen MS Y 44 (1193), 26rv (s. xiii; without witnesses)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 549 ex MS 5; K 810 ex MSS 1, 2, without bounds; Rose-Troup 1939, pp. 202-4, with translation of bounds, pp. 205-6; Hooke 1994, pp. 208, 211, bounds only.
Comments: PN Devon, p. 603 n., on bounds; Rose-Troup 1939, pp. 201-2, confection based on brief record of grant; Finberg, ECDC, no. 69; Oleson 1955, p. 153, dubious; HRH, p. 234, probably authentic basis, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1988, pp. 200-1, authentic, MS 2 a facsimile transcript of original made in 1227; BA Facs., p. 12, authentic; Hooke 1994, pp. 207-12, on bounds; Abrams 1996, p. 190, note on estate.
A.D. 1061. King Edward to Wulfwold, abbot; grant of land at Ashwick, Somerset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Bath
MSS: 1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 90-2 (s. xii2)
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, p. 127 (s. xiii)
Printed: K 811 and vol. vi. 244; Hunt, Bath Charts., i. 33-5, 65-6; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 37.
Comments: Stevenson 1904, p. lxvi n. 1, clearly modelled on S 380 and probably spurious; Harmer, Writs, p. 430, probably at least founded on fact; Oleson 1955, p. 153, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 533, authentic; Whitelock 1966, p. 101, dating criteria inconsistent; HRH, p. 234, probably authentic basis, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 26 n. 38, cited; Keynes 1988, pp. 203, 204-5 n. 115, pp. 206, 213 n. 170; probably genuine, drawn up by Giso of Wells, the diocesan bishop, partly on the basis of S 380 from his own archives; Keynes 1994/2, p. 1144 n.; Keynes 1997, pp. 231-2, 256, drawn up by Giso of Wells.
A.D. 1062. King Edward to Chertsey Abbey; confirmation of privileges and of land, consisting of 5 hides (mansae) at Chertsey, 10 at Thorpe, 10 at Egham, 10 at Chobham, 10 at Petersham, 7 at Tooting with Streatham, 7 at Mitcham and Sutton, 20 at Banstead with Suthmeresfelda (i.e. Canon's Farm in Banstead), 20 at Waddington with Coulsdon and Chaldon, 20 at Mertsham, 5 at Chipstead, 20 at Epsom, 6 at Cuddington, 5 at Tadworth, 20 at Bookham with Effingham, Dritham and Piccingawrthe, 20 at Cobham, 5 at Esher, 5 at Apps Court, 10 at East Clandon, 2 at West Clandon [bought by Abbot Wulfwold from Harold, comes, for 2 marks of gold in the presence of King Edward], 4 at Albury, 6 at Henley Park, Surrey; 10 at White Waltham, Berks.; 8 at Byfleet with Weybridge, Surrey; 2 at Laleham [bought by Abbot Wulfwold from King Edward for 15 marks of silver] and 1 at Ashford, Middx. Latin.
Archive: Chertsey
MS: BL Cotton Vitell. A. xiii, 51v-53r (s. xiii)
Printed: K 812; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 38.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 703, work of the same forger as S 453, 752, 1056; PN Middx, pp. 12, 16; Harmer, Writs, p. 203, unlikely to be authentic in its present form; Oleson 1956, date not 962; Dodgson and Khaliq 1969-70, p. 39, queries identification of Albury, Surrey; HRH, p. 234, spurious; PN Berks., i. 70; Rumble 1976, pp. 167-9, 180 n. 16, on place-name forms; Gelling, ECTV, no. 343 (pp. 67, 117, 163-4), spurious; Whitelock, EHD, p. 371, St Paul's and Chertsey must have combined to produce spurious documents; Fleming 1985, p. 256; Dumville 1992, p. 52, spurious; cf. S 752, 453.
A.D. 1062. King Edward to Waltham Abbey; grant of privileges and confirmation of land at Waltham, Northland in Waltham, Paslow in High Ongar, South Weald, Upminster, Walhfare (? Walter Hall) in Boreham, Debden and Alderton in Loughton, Woodford, Essex; Lambeth, Surrey; Nazeing, Essex; Brickendon, Herts.; Millow, Arlesey, Beds.; Wormley, Herts.; Netteswell, Essex; Hitchin, Herts.; Luckington (or Loughton), Essex; and White Waltham, Berks. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Waltham
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Tib. C. ix, 48r-49r (s. xiii)
2. BL Harley 391, 33r-35v (s. xiii)
3. PRO Cart. Ant. R. 12, no. 1 (s. xiii)
4. Bodleian, Dodsworth 25, 15v-17r (s. xvii)
5. Bodleian, Dodsworth 68, 66r-67r (s. xvii; incomplete; ex 3)
Printed: K 813 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi. 61-2 (no. 1) ex MSS 1, 3; Stubbs 1861, pp. 46-9; Thorpe, pp. 392-8; Winters 1877, pp. 209-13, ex MS 1; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 39; Conway Davies 1957, pp. 35-8, ex MS 3.
Comments: Stubbs 1863, authentic; Winters 1877; Freeman, N.C., ii. 693-7; Stevenson 1896, p. 732 n. 1, spurious; Round 1904; Fowler 1920, no. 16; PN Beds., pp. 103, 166; Douglas 1932, p. xciii n.; PN Essex, pp. 25 n., 65 n., 66 n., 73 n., 110 n., 131 n., 135 n., 239 n.; PN Surrey, p. 22 n., on bounds of Lambeth; Harmer 1938, p. 342 n. 1, post-Conquest fabrication; Harmer, Writs, pp. 37, 59, 560, spurious; Darlington 1955, pp. 86-7, spurious; Oleson 1955, p. 153, spurious; Stenton 1955, pp. 86-7, post-Conquest forgery; Hart, ECE, no. 67, spurious; HRH, p. 234, spurious, subscriptions are not consistent; PN Berks., i. 70; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 370, spurious; Gelling, ECTV, no. 186 (pp. 21, 68, 91-2, 164), spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 126 n. 136, p. 150 n. 233; Keynes 1988, pp. 200-3, 206, may be authentic; Watkiss and Chibnall 1994, pp. xxiii-iv, xxxviii-xliii, on Waltham background; Pelteret 1995, p. 276, on a personal name.
A.D. 1063. King Edward to St Olave (Exeter); grant of land at Kenbury, Devon, and at Lan.... Latin.
Archive: Exeter, St Olave
MS: BL Cotton Vit. D. ix, 39rv (s. xiii)
Printed: Phillipps 1834, pp. 63-4; K 814 ex Phillipps; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi. 1177 (no. 7); Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 40.
Comments: Finberg, ECDC, no. 60; Hooke 1994, pp. 188-9, cited.
A.D. 1065 (Winchester, 31, Dec.). King Edward to Archbishop Ealdred; grant of the see of Worcester. Latin.
Archive: York
MS: York, D. & C., Mag. Reg. Alb., pt 1, 60v-61r (s. xiv)
Printed: Mon. Angl., iii. 130-1; Thomas 1737, App. no. 1 ex Mon. Angl.; K 815.
Comments: Darlington 1928, p. xxvi n. 2, forgery; Harmer 1952, p. 547, spurious; Oleson 1955, p. 153, spurious; Finberg, ECWM, no. 366, spurious; HRH, pp. 81, 234, spurious, but witness-list possible for c. 1062 or a little earlier; Keynes 1988, p. 210 n. 144, spurious.
A.D. 1065. King Edward to Malmesbury Abbey; confirmation of privileges and of land, consisting of (a) 30 hides at Long Newnton [granted by King Æthelred], (b) 30 at Kemble of which 4 were at Chelworth in Crudwell, and 35 at Purton [granted by King Cædwalla to Abbot Aldhelm], (c) 40 at Crudwell, including Eastcourt, Hankerton and Murcott, 20 at Charlton near Malmesbury, and 10 at Dauntsey [granted by King Æthelwulf], (d) 10 at Wootton Bassett, 38 at Bremhill, including Euridge in Colerne, Spirthill in Bremhill, Chedecotun, Foxham and Avon in Bremhill, 5 at Norton, Wilts.; 5 at Somerford (? Somerford Keynes), Gloucs. [all granted by King Athelstan]; (e) 50 at Brokenborough [granted by King Eadwig], (f) 50 (?) at Grittenham, 10 at Sutton Benger, 10 at Rodbourne, 10 at Corston, 3 at Cusfalde (Cole Park), 2 at Bremilham, (g) 5 at Brinkworth [granted by Leofsige, uir nobilis], (h) and 11 at Highway in Hilmartin [granted by King Æthelred], all in Wilts.; (i) and 5 at Littleton on Severn, Gloucs. [granted by Wernoth, with the consent of King Æthelred]. Latin.
Archive: Malmesbury
MSS: 1. BL Lansdowne 417, 28r-29r (s. xiv)
2. PRO Cart. Ant. R. 16, no. 1 (s. xiii)
3. PRO Pat. R. 8 Ric. II, pt 2, m. 30
4. PRO Pat. R. 5 Edw. IV, pt 3, m. 12
5. PRO Pat. R. 1 Hen. IV, pt 8, m. 37
6. PRO E 164/24, 134v-135v (s. xiii)
7. Bodleian, Wood empt. 5, 49r-52r (s. xiii)
Printed: K 817; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 258-9 (no. 9); Brewer, Reg, Malm., pp. 321-4 ex MS 6; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 41; Conway Davies 1957, pp. 108-9 ex MS 2.
Comments: Akerman 1857/1, no. 26; Forsberg 1950, p. 216; Harmer, Writs, pp. 37, 39 n. 3, doubtful, p. 127 n. 2, not authentic in present form but possibly founded on genuine material; Darlington 1955, pp. 87-90, doubtful; Oleson 1955, p. 154, doubtful; Finberg, ECWM, no. 180, spurious; HRH, p. 234, doubtful, subscriptions are few but not definitely inconsistent; Keynes 1980, p. 27 n. 40, p. 126 n. 136; Fleming 1985, p. 252 n. 9, authenticity uncertain but may have some authentic basis; Edwards 1988, p. 89, probably spurious; Keynes 1988, p. 214 n. 174, seemingly disreputable, but perhaps produced in unusual circumstances; Dumville 1992, p. 41 n. 57, p. 43, forged; Abrams 1996, p. 85, on Chelworth, p. 254 n. 72, on Corston; Keynes 1997, pp. 234-5, may have authentic basis.
A.D. 1065 (28 Dec.). King Edward to Westminster Abbey, the Telligraphus of Edward; confirmation and grant of privileges and of lands at Westminster, Berwyka in Tottenhale (Tottenham Court), Knightsbridge, Paddington, Hampstead, Hendon with Bleccenham (lost, in Hendon), Kingsbury, Middx.; Tytebirste; Greneuorthe (? for Greenford, Middx.); Hanwell, Middx.; Mapulderforde (? for Maplestead, Essex); Aldenham, Herts.; Dachewelle (? for Datchworth, Herts.); Watton-at-Stone, Holwell, Herts.; Sunbury, Shepperton, Littleton, Hanworth, Middx.); Sippenham; Eastburneham (? Eastbourne, Sussex), with Rotherwica; Morden, Surrey; Ewell, Kent; Parham, Chollington in Eastbourne, West Chiltington, Sussex; Ham, Essex; Sunnitune; Fanton in North Benfleet, Bowers Gifford, Essex; Lenlevedune (? Kelvedon in Kelvedon Hatch, Essex); Deene, Sudborough, Northants.; Perton, Staffs.; Denham, Bucks.; Moulsham, Kelvedon, Rayne, Latchingdon, Wanstead, Leyton, Paglesham, Essex; Lessness, Kent; Claygate, Surrey; Ayot St Lawrence, Wormley, Herts.; Amersham, Weedon, Bucks.; Islip, Launton, Oxon.; Staines, Middx.; Windsor, Berks.; Wheathampstead, Herts.; Stevenage, Herts.; Rutland; and Deerhurst, Gloucs. Latin.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 113v-120r (s. xv)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Book 11, 43v-45v (s. xiv)
Printed: (unprinted)
Comments: Robinson 1911, p. 40, manifestly unauthentic; Harmer 1936, p. 99 n. 3, spurious, but seems to preserve genuine traditions; Harmer, Writs, p. 290, spurious; Hart, ECE, no. 70, spurious; Finberg, ECWM, no. 185, spurious; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, mid-12th-century forgery; Hart, ECNE, no. 98, spurious; Harvey 1977, pp. 24, 337, 338, 341, 342, 345, 353, 355 n., 356; Gelling, ECTV, no. 241, spurious.
Note. A variant of S 1043. Place-name forms very corrupt.
A.D. 1065. King Edward to Westminster Abbey; confirmation and grant of privileges and confirmation of land, consisting of (a) 17.5 hides (mansae) at Westminster, 20 at Hendon, 5 at Hampstead, 12 at Greenford, 8 at Hanwell, 5 at Shepperton, 7 at Sunbury, 2 at Cowley, Middx.; 5 at Brickendon, 10 at Aldenham, 5 at Datchworth and Watton-at-Stone, 6 at Holwell, Herts.; 5 at Kelvedon (?), 4 at Fanton in North Benfleet, Essex; 10 at Morden, Surrey; 2 at Ewell, Kent; 7 at Parham, 4 at Chillington in Eastbourne, 4 at West Chiltington, Sussex; 6 at Ham, 4 at Wennington, Essex; (b) Moulsham [granted by Leofcild], Kelvedon Hatch (?) [granted by Æthelric], Maplestead [granted by Wulfwine], Kelvedon, Rayne and Latchingdon [granted by Guthmund], Wanstead [granted by Ælfric], Paglesham [granted by Ingulph], Leyton [granted by Atsere Swearte], Essex; Claygate, Surrey [granted by Tostig]; Lessness, Kent [granted by Atsere]; Ickworth, Suffolk [granted by Brihtsige]; Denham [granted by Wulfstan], 1 hide at Amersham and 1 at Weedon, Bucks. [granted by Siward, monachus]; (c) and grant of land at Staines, Middx.; Windsor, Berks.; Wheathampstead, Stevenage, Ashwell, Herts.; Deene, Sudborough, Northants.; Islip, Launton, Oxon.; Perton, Staffs.; Rutland [after the death of Queen Edith]; Pershore, Worcs.; and Deerhurst, Gloucs. Latin.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 2, quire 3 (s. xvi)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 78r-79r (s. xiv)
Printed: Widmore, Enquiry, Appendix, no. 2.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 290-2, spurious; Chaplais 1962, pp. 92-4, probably forged by Osbert de Clare (= 1981, XVIII pp. 92-4); Hart, ECEE, no. 118A, spurious; Hart, ECE, no. 69, spurious; Finberg, ECWM, no. 184 (pp. 79, 133), spurious; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, forgery; Hart, ECNE, no. 29 (pp. 65, 100), spurious; Harvey 1977, pp. 24, 339, 342, 343, 346, 347, 355, 356, 360; Gelling, ECTV, no. 243 (pp. 68-9, 118, 144-5, 164), spurious.
A.D. 1065 (Westminster, 28 Dec.). King Edward to Westminster Abbey, Third Charter; grant and confirmation of privileges. Latin.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. XX (s. xii; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 18)
2. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 31v-37v (s. xiii)
3. BL Cotton Titus A. viii, 11v-13v (s. xiv)
4. PRO Cart. Ant. R. 20, no. 1 (s. xiii)
5. PRO C. 146/9499 (s. xiv; extracts)
6. London, Soc. Ant., 128, 388r (s. xvii; incomplete)
7. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 41r-43r (s. xiv)
8. Bodleian, Dodsworth 10, 88r (s. xvii; incomplete)
9. Bodleian, James 23, pp. 67-8 (s. xvii; incomplete)
Printed: Alford 1663, iii. 573-4; Wilkins, Concilia, i. 319-22 ex MS 1; K 825 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 295-8 (no. 6) ex MS 2; Thorpe, pp. 406-14; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6. no. 43; Conway Davies 1957, pp. 192-7, ex MS 4.
Comments: Dep. Keep. 29, Appendix, pp. 25-6; Napier and Stevenson, p. 92, spurious; Plummer 1899, p. 213 n. 1 and p. 233, spurious; Robinson 1909, p. 14, spurious; Stevenson 1914, p. 702, spurious; Harmer, Writs, pp. 60, 290, 560, spurious; Oleson 1955, p. 154, spurious; John 1960, p. 102, false; Chaplais 1962, pp. 91-5, scribe of MS 1 identified, composed by Osbert de Clare before 1139 (= 1981, XVIII, pp. 91-5); HRH, p. 234, spurious, but subscriptions are nearly consistent; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, forgery; Gelling, ECTV, no. 244, spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 113 n. 92, spurious; Keynes 1988, pp. 198-9, 206, 209-10, spurious, forger used witness-list from a charter issued late in Edward's reign.
A.D. 1065 (Windsor, Berks., 20 or 24 May). King Edward to the bishopric of Wells; general confirmation of lands, comprising (a) 50 hides at Wells (formerly Tidingtun), with appurtenances at Polsham, Wookey, Henton, Yarley, Bleadney, Easton, Westbury, Wookey Hole, Ebbor, Burcott, (Upper and Lower) Milton, Pen Hill, East and West Horrington, Whitchurch, Dinder, Dulcote, Wellesley, Worminster, Chilcote, Binegar, Wanstrow, Litton; (b) 50 hides at Chew, with appurtenances at Littleton, Hæsele (Hazel Farm near Upper Littleton in Dundry), Dundry, (Bishops) Sutton, Sutton (Wick), Sutton (Court); (c) 20 hides at Evercreech, with Prestleigh, Chesterblade and (Stony) Stratton; (d) 38 hides at Kingsbury, with appurtenances at Lambrook, Readewelle, æt tham Beorge, Littleney (lost) in Huish, Huish Episcopi, Combe St Nicholas, Pibsbury, Chard, and other frusa Cerdren (? South Chard), Crimchard, Langham in Chard, Winsham, Congresbury and Banwell; (e) 15 hides at Wellington, with appurtenances at (West) Buckland, Ham, Huntanapoth, Harpford, Pinksmoor in Wellington Without and Chelston; (f) 15 hides at Wiveliscombe, with appurtenances at Nunnington, Upcott, Whitefield, Withycombe, Oakhampton, Langley, Ford, Pitsford, Fitzhead, the other Fifhyda, Dean, Slæp and Hwrentimor; (g) 15 hides at (Bishops) Lydeard, with appurtenances at (East) Combe, Padnoller (in Charlynch), Wuduland, Ash (Priors), Bagborough, Anacota and Hylle (? Lydeard Hill); (h) 4 hides at Wedmore, with appurtenances at Tarnock in Biddisham, Heawycan and Mark; all in Somerset. The diploma was written by Giso, bishop of Wells. Latin.
Archive: Wells
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Tib. E. viii, pt i, 218r (s. xviii; incomplete)
2. Wells, D. & C., Liber Albus II, 241r-242r (s. xv/xvi)
3. London, College of Arms, WE, 121r-123r (s. xvii; ex 1)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 187 ex MS 1; K 816 ex Mon. Angl. and MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 285-6 (no. 2); H,M,C, Wells (1907), i. 428-9; Keynes 1997, pp. 260-2 ex MS 2.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, p. 489, spurious; Oleson 1955, p. 153, doubtful; Turner 1950; Turner 1951; Finberg, ECW, no. 542, spurious; Hart, ECNE, p. 384; Keynes 1980, p. 26 n. 38, p. 28 n. 47; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 264 n. 192, cited; Fleming 1985, p. 252; Rumble 1987, p. 227, spurious; Keynes 1988, pp. 200, 203-4, 206, perhaps authentic, witness-list undeniably so; Dumville 1992, p. 41 n. 56, doubtful; Crosby 1994, p. 51 n. 24; Abrams 1996, p. 59, on Binegar, pp. 62-3, on Bleadney, p. 92, on Wedmore, p. 229, on Tarnock; Keynes 1997, p. 230 n. 136, pp. 232-8, 257, 260, irregular in form but may have authentic basis, although list of estates would seem to have been updated.
A.D. 1066 (Westminster, 28 Dec.). King Edward to Westminster Abbey, First Charter; confirmation of privileges and of lands, comprising (a) 17.5 hides at Westminster, 20 at Hendon, 5 at Hampstead, 12 hides and 1 uirga at Greenford, 8 hides at Hanwell, 8 at Shepperton, 7 at Sunbury, Middx.; 10 at Aldenham, 4 hides and 1 uirga at Datchworth, 4.5 hides at Watton(-at-Stone), 6.5 at Holwell, Herts.; 2 at Ham, 4 at Wennington, 5 at Kelvedon (?), 4 at Fanton in North Benfleet, Essex; 10 at Morden, Surrey; 2 at Ewell, Kent; 7 at Parham, 3 at Chollington in Eastbourne, 4 at (West) Chiltington, Sussex; (b) Moulsham [granted by Leofcild], Kelvedon Hatch (?) [granted by Æthelric], Maplestead [granted by Wulfwine], Kelvedon, Rayne and Latchingdon [granted by Guthmund), Wanstead [granted by Ælfric], Leyton [granted by Ætsere Swearte], Paglesham [granted by Ingulf], Essex; Lessness, Kent [granted by Ætsere]; Claygate, Surrey [granted by Tostig]; Ayot St Lawrence, Herts. [granted by Ælfwine]; Denham [granted by Wulfstan], a half hide at Amersham and 1 hide at Weedon, Bucks. [granted by Siward]; 2.5 hides at Wormley, Herts. [granted by Leofsige of London]; and (c) grant of land at Launton, Islip, Oxon.; Staines, Middx; Windsor, Berks.; Wheathampstead, Herts.; Stevenage, Ashwell, Herts.; Deene, Sudborough, Northants.; Perton, Staffs.; Rutland [after the death of Queen Edith]; Pershore, Worcs.; and Deerhurst, Gloucs. Latin.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Ch. vi. 2 (s. xii1; BA Facs., 39)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. XCV (s. xii1; BA Facs., 38; D'Ardenne 1939, facing pp. 154-5)
3. Cambridge, U.L., Dd. 8. 39, pp. 62-70 (s. xvii)
4. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 25v-30r (s. xiii)
5. BL Cotton Titus A. viii, 9r-11r (s. xiv)
6. BL Harley 6748, 3r (s. xvii; incomplete)
7. PRO Cart. Ant. R. 27, no. 1 (s. xiii)
8. PRO Ch.R. 9 Edw. III, no. 51
9. PRO Ch.R. 3 Ric. II, no. 18
10. PRO Pat. R. 1 Hen. VI, pt 4, mm. 11-12
11. PRO Pat. R. 1 Edw. IV, pt 7, m. 28
12. PRO Conf. R. 1 Ric. III, pt 3, no. 2
13. PRO Conf. R. 2 Hen. VII, pt 2, no. 12
14. PRO Conf. R. 2 Hen. VIII, pt 6, no. 1
15. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 2, 1r-5r (s. xvi)
16. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 38v-40v (s. xiv)
17. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. XXI (s. xiv; shortened version)
18. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. 12752 (s. xv; incomplete)
19. Bodleian, Dodsworth 10, 84r-87v (s. xvii)
20. Bodleian, James 23, pp. 69-70 (s. xvii; incomplete)
21. Bodleian, James 24, pp. 30-1 (s. xvii; incomplete)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 59-62 ex MS 1; Wilkins, Concilia, i. 316-18 ex MS 1; K 824 ex MS 4; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 293-5 (no. 4); Thorpe, pp. 400-6; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 43 bis.
Comments: Madden 1862, p. 176; Dep. Keep. 29, Appendix, pp. 24-5; Stevenson 1896, p. 732 n. 1; Napier and Stevenson, p. 92, spurious; Plummer 1899, p. 213 n. 1 and p. 233, spurious; Robinson 1909, pp. 13-14; Essex Arch. Soc., xvii (1926), pp. 10-22; Harmer 1936, p. 102 n. 1, spurious; D'Ardenne 1939, pp. 160-4; PN Middx, pp. 17, 33, 35, 56, 165; Harmer, Writs, pp. 60, 289-91, spurious; Oleson 1955, p. 154, spurious; John 1960, p. 102, false; Chaplais 1962, pp. 91-2, scribe of MS 1 identified, pp. 92-5, composed by Osbert de Clare before 1139 (= 1981, XVIII pp. 91-5); Hart, ECE, no. 68, spurious; Finberg, ECWM, no. 183 (pp. 78, 132-3), spurious; HRH, p. 234, spurious, but subscriptions are consistent; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, forgery; Hart, ECNE, no. 30 (pp. 66, 100-1), spurious; Harvey 1977, pp. 24, 339, 342, 343, 346, 347, 355; Gelling, ECTV, no. 242 (pp. 68, 79, 92-3, 117, 144, 165), spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 113 n. 29, spurious; Keynes 1988, pp. 198-9, 206, 209-10, spurious; Hooke 1990, pp. 338-9, cited; BA Facs., p. 11, MS 2 the pretended original, MS 1 a copy; Wormald 1993, p. 18, on Deerhurst.
A.D. 1042 x 1044. King Edward to Æthelred, optimas; grant of 2 hides (cassati) at West Cliffe, Kent. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MS: BL Cotton Aug. ii. 68 (s. xi med.; BM Facs., iv. 25)
Printed: K 769; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 21.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 322-3, on place-names; Oleson 1955, p. 150, doubtful; Bishop 1971, p. xxiii and n. 5, on script; HRH, p. 233, possibly original, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 126 n. 136, on formulation; Keynes 1988, p. 213 n. 167, apparent original; Dumville 1993, pp. 133, 134, on script.
A.D. 1042 x 1065. King Edward to St Edmunds Abbey; confirmation and grant of privileges. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: English
1. Cambridge, U.L., Ee. 3. 60, 126v (s. xiv)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 22r (s. xiii2)
3. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 102rv (s. xv)
4. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 270v-271r (s. xv)
5. BL Add. 14847, 30r (s. xiv)
6. BL Harley 638, 25v-26r (s. xiv)
7. BL Harley 743, 59v (s. xiv)
8. PRO Ch.R. 8 Edw. II, no. 11
9. PRO Ch.R. 4 Edw. III, no. 58
10. PRO Ch.R. 7-8 Ric. II, no. 11
11. PRO Ch.R. 1 Hen. IV, pt 2, no. 2
12. PRO Ch.R. 1 Hen. V, pt 2, no. 6
13. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI, pt 2, m. 38
14. PRO Cart. Ant. R. 15, no. 1 (s. xiii)
15. PRO Conf. R. 2 Ric. III, pt 3, no. 9
16. PRO Conf. R. 3 Hen. VII, pt 1, no. 10
17. PRO Conf. R. 8 Hen. VIII, no. 5
18. Bodleian, Gough Cambridge 22, 13rv (s. xiv)
Latin
19. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 22r (s. xiii2)
20. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 4. 35, 3v (s. xv)
21. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 97r (s. xv)
22. BL Add. 5846, 18r (s. xviii)
23. BL Lansdowne 416, 86v (s. xv)
Printed: English
K 895 ex MSS 2, 7; Thorpe, pp. 347-9, ex MSS 2, 7, with translation; Hervey 1907, p. 602, with translation, p. 603; Conway Davies 1957, p. 87 ex MS 14. Latin Mon. Angl., i. 287-8; K 910 ex MS 22; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 138 (no. 6); Thorpe, pp. 419-20; Hervey 1907, p. 604; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 63.Comments: Davis 1909, p. 418; Lobel 1935, p. 5 n. 8; Harmer, Writs, p. 141 n. 2, authenticity more than dubious; Hart, ECEE, no. 102, spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 113 n. 92, spurious; Hart 1992, p. 59, may contain spurious elements; Dumville 1993, p. 37 n. 140, p. 38, spurious.
A.D. 1042 x 1066. King Edward to St Edmunds; confirmation of privileges and grant of land at Mildenhall, Suffolk, and eight and a half hundreds at Thingoe, Suffolk. Latin and English versions.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: Latin
1. Cambridge, U.L., Ee. 3. 60, 130r (s. xiv)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 23r (s. xiii2)
3. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 4. 35, 4r (s. xv; incomplete)
4. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 97rv (s. xv)
5. BL Add. 14847, 31r (s. xiv)
6. BL Harley 645, 143v (s. xiv)
7. BL Harley 743, 59r (s. xiv)
English
8. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 23r (s. xiii2)
9. BL Add. 14847, 31rv (s. xiii)
Printed: Latin
K 915 ex MSS 6, 7; Thorpe, pp. 418-19 ex MSS 5, 6, 7; Hervey 1907, p. 609; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 1046.
EnglishK 1346 ex MS 9; Thorpe, pp. 417-19ex MS 9, with translation; Hervey 1907, p. 607, with translation, p. 608.
Comments: Davis 1909, pp. 418-20; Lobel 1935, p. 7; Harmer, Writs, p. 141 n. 2, spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 113 n. 92, spurious; Dumville 1993, p. 37 n. 140, p. 38, spurious; Pelteret 1995, p. 167 n. 13, on a formula.
A.D. 1042 x 1066. King Edward to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Chartham, Kent, and Walworth, Surrey, and confirmation of land at Sandwich, Eastry, Folkestone, Thanet, Adisham, Ickham, Chartham, Godmersham, Westwell, East Chart, the other Chart, Berwick, Brook, Warehorne, Appledore, Mersham, Orpington, Preston, Meopham, Cooling, Farningham, Hythe, Hollingbourne, Farleigh, Peckham, all in Kent; at Patching and Wootton in Sussex; at Walworth, Merstham, Cheam, and Horsley in Surrey; at Southchurch, Laver, Milton (Hall) in Prittlewell, Lawling in Latchingdon, Bocking, St Osyth and Stisted in Essex; at Hadleigh and Monks Eleigh, Suffolk; at Monks Risborough in Bucks.; and at Newington and Britwell Prior, Oxon. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: English
1. BL Cotton Claud. A. iii, 6v (s xi; with erasures)
2. Bodleian, Gough Berks. 20, 13rv (s. xviii)
Latin note
3. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, 201v (s. xii)
4. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. I, 58v-59r (s. xiii2)
5. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. P, 26rv (s. xii)
6. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 331 (s. xiii)
7. Bodleian, Tanner 223, 20v (s. xvi)
Printed: English
K 896; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 100 (no. 10); Robertson, Charters, no. 95 (pp. 180-2), with translation, pp. 181-3.
LatinTwysden, X Scriptores, col. 2224 ex MS 5; Hart, ECEE, pp. 73-4 ex MS 6; Fleming 1997, pp. 145-6 (no. 76) ex MSS 5, 6.
Comments: Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 326-7, on place-names; PN Oxon, i. 105-6, 132; Robertson, Charters, pp. 427-30; Kissan 1939, p. 287; Harmer, Writs, p. 175 n. 5, not authentic in present form but may contain authentic material; Ker, Catalogue, no. 185 (p. 240), on MS 1; Hart, ECEE, no. 117, grant of Chartham probably authentic, the remainder a post-Conquest addition; Whitelock 1969, p. 113, dubious; Barlow 1970, p. 135, doubtful, cited with reference to royal style; Hart, ECE, no. 54, authentic basis; Rumble 1976, p. 167, on a place-name form (Merstham); Gelling, ECTV, nos 301, 344, spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 113 n. 92, spurious; Brooks 1984, p. 258 n. 14, p. 388 nn. 140, 143, on the scribe of MS 1.
A.D. 1042 x 1046. King Edward to St Augustine's Abbey; confirmation of lands and grant of St Mildrith's lands on Thanet. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, St Augustine's
MSS: 1. Canterbury, D. & C., Lit. E. 19, 1rv (s. xiv)
2. BL Add. 53710, 223v-224r (s. xiv)
3. BL Cotton Claud. D. x, 63rv (s. xiv)
4. BL Cotton Claud. D. x, 183r (s. xiii)
5. BL Cotton Jul. D. ii, 90rv (s. xiii)
6. BL Cotton Vesp. B. xx, 276rv (s. xv)
7. PRO Ch.R. 20 Edw. II, m. 2
8. PRO Ch.R. 36 Edw. III, m. 7
9. PRO Ch.R. 8 Hen. IV, m. 6
10. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI, pt 3, m. 5
11. PRO Pat. R. 4 Edw. IV, pt 4, m. 29
12. PRO Pat. R. 14 Hen. VII, pt 1, m. 16
Printed: Mon Angl., i. 84-5 ex MS 5; Twysden, X Scriptores, cols 2127-8 ex MS 2; Alford 1663, iii. 50; K 900 ex MSS 5, 6 etc.; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 450 (no. 3); Thorpe, pp. 425-6; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 53; Kelly, St Augustine's, no. 34 ex MSS 3, 5, 6.
Comments: Turner 1915, p. xxxix; Levison 1946, cf. p. 346, spurious; Harmer, Writs, p. 195 and n. 2, spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 126 n. 136, on formulation; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 124-5, spurious.
A.D. 1045 x 1050. King Edward to Crowland Abbey; confirmation of lands and privileges. Latin.
Archive: Crowland
MSS: 1. BL Arundel 178, 52r (s. xvi)
2. BL Lansdowne 207c, 118v-120v (s. xvii)
3. Oxford, Queen's College, 368, p. 208 (s. xvii)
Printed: Savile, Ingulph, pp. 896-7; Alford 1663, iii. 532; Fulman 1684, p. 64 ex MS 1; K 794; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 118 (no. 15); Birch, Ingulf, pp. 110-11.
Comments: Robertson, Charters, p. 468, spurious; Oleson 1955, p. 152, spurious; HRH, p. 234, spurious; Roffe 1995, pp. 104-8, on background to forgery.
A.D. 1042 x 1050. King Edward to Archbishop Eadsige; grant of 1 sulung (aratrum) at Littlebourne, Kent. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, St Augustine's
MS: BL Cotton Jul. D. ii, 105rv (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1344; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 55; Kelly, St Augustine's, no. 36.
Comments: Turner 1915, p. xl; Wallenberg, KPN, p. 334, on place-names; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 130-1, authentic; cf. S 1401.
A.D. 1042 x 1066. King Edward to Ely Abbey; grant of land at Lakenheath and confirmation of privileges and of land at Ely, Swaffham Prior, Horningsea, Wood Ditton, Hauxton, Newton, Stapleford, Great Shelford, Triplow, Melbourn, Armingford, Little Gransden, Stetchworth, Balsham, Fulbourn, Teversham, Westley Waterless, Trumpington, West Wratting, Snailwell, Fen Ditton, Hardwick, Milton, Impington, Cottenham, and Willingham, Cambs.; at Hartest, Glemsford, Hitcham, Rattlesden, Drinkstone, Nedging, Barking, Barham, Wetheringsett, Livermere, Occold, Wicklow, Sudbourne, Melton, Kingston, Hoo, Stoke (near Ipswich), Debenham, Brightwell, Woodbridge and Brandon, Suffolk; at Feltwell, Bridgeham, Methwold, Croxton, Weeting, Mundford, Bergh Apton, Westfield, Fincham, Northwold, Walpole, Marham, Dereham, Thorpe and Pulham, Norfolk; at Hadstock, Littlebury, Stretley (Green) in Littlebury, the two Rodings, Rettendon, Amberden (Hall) in Debden, Broxted, Easter, Fambridge and Terling, Essex; at Hadham, Hatfield and Kelshall, Herts.; at Spaldwick, Somersham, Colne and Bluntisham, Hunts. Latin.
Archive: Ely
MSS: 1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 234-6 (s. xvi)
2. Cambridge, Trinity College, O. 2. 1, 77r-78v (s. xii)
3. Cambridge, Trinity College, O. 2. 41, pp. 98-102 (s. xii med.)
4. Cambridge, Trinity College, O. 2. 41, pp. 69-73 (s. xii; French)
5. Cambridge, U.L., EDC., Liber M, pp. 71-2 (s. xiii2)
6. Ely, D. & C., Liber Eliensis, 75v-76v (s. xiii)
7. BL Add. 9822, 14v-15v (s. xv)
8. BL Cotton Cleop. C. i, 92v-94v (s. xiv)
9. BL Cotton Tib. A. vi, 101r-102v (s. xii2)
10. BL Cotton Titus A. i, 24r-25r (s. xii)
11. BL Harley 230, 126v-127r (s. xiv)
12. BL Harley 358, 28r-29r (s. xvi)
13. BL Harley 6598, 27r-28r (s. xvii)
14. BL Lansdowne 447, 36v-37r (s. xvii)
15. PRO Cart. Ant. R. 2, no. 12 (s. xiii)
16. PRO Cart. Ant. R. 33, no. 2 (s. xiii)
17. PRO Ch.R. 12 Edw. II, no. 40
18. PRO Ch.R. 2 Edw. III, no. 78
19. PRO Ch.R. 1 Hen. IV, pt 2, no. 5
20. PRO Conf. R. 1 Hen. VII, pt 1, no. 11
21. PRO Conf. R. 2 Hen. VIII, pt 3, no. 3
22. PRO Conf. R. 14-18 Eliz., no. 6
23. PRO Conf. R. 4 Jas. I, no. 13
24. PRO Pat. R. 1 Rich. II, pt 5, m. 34
25. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI, pt 4, mm. 4-2
26. PRO Pat. R. 2 Edw. IV, pt 6, m. 25
27. London, Soc. Ant., 38, 181v-182v (s. xiv)
28. London, Soc. Ant., no. 128, 152r (s. xvii; incomplete)
29. Bodleian, Dugdale 11, 1rv (s. xvii)
30. Bodleian, Dugdale 21, 70v-71r (s. xvii)
31. Bodleian, Gough Cambridge 22, 2v-3r (s. xiv)
32. Bodleian, Laud. Misc. 647, 46v-47r (s. xii)
Printed: Mon. Angl. i. 93-4; Bentham, Ely, Appendix pp. 2-3 (no. 2); K 907; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 476-7 (no. 7); Stewart, Liber Eliensis, pp. 211-14; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 60; Landon 1939, pp. 26-8 (no. 48) ex MS 15; Blake, Liber Eliensis, pp. 161-3 ex MS 6.
Comments: Stewart, Liber Eliensis, p. 211 n., suspicious; PN Hunts., pp. 204, 208; Harmer, Writs, p. 37, suspicious, p. 222 n. 2, not authentic in present form; Blake, Liber Eliensis, pp. 417-18, citing Harmer, possibly expanded and embellished version of a genuine charter, some encouraging features; Hart, ECEE, no. 35 (pp. 34-5, 50, 67, 84) and p. 251, citing Blake, authentic; Hart, ECE, no. 55, authentic; Barlow 1979, p. 42, forged; Gelling, ECTV, no. 184, authentic; Crosby 1994, pp. 154-5, may have been drawn up around 1080; Kennedy 1995, p. 151 n. 86, on immunity; Wormald 1995, p. 128, spurious; Wormald 1996, p. 123, unquestionably spurious.
A.D. 1042 x 1066. King Edward to Evesham Abbey; confirmation of privileges and of 5 hides at Hampton, Worcs., granted by Leofric, comes. Latin
Archive: Evesham
MS: BL Cotton Vesp. B. xxiv, 30v (s. xii)
Printed: K 911; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 64; Barlow 1970, p. 331.
Comments: Finberg, ECWM, no. 354, authentic basis; Barlow 1970, p. 330, irregular in form, written in (? deliberately) barbarous Latin; Hooke 1990, p. 335; cf. S 1053.
A.D. 1042 x 1046. King Edward to Evesham Abbey; confirmation of the grant by Leofric, dux, of land at Hampton, Worcs. Latin.
Archive: Evesham
MS: BL Cotton Vesp. B. xxiv, 30v (s. xii)
Printed: Barlow 1970, pp. 330-1.
Comments: Barlow 1970, p. 330, completely irregular in form, with an inconsistent witness-list; Finberg, ECWM, no. 354A (p. 239), spurious; cf. S 1052.
A.D. 1042 x 1047. King Edward declares that the land at Steyning, Somerset, is to pass to Fécamp Abbey after the death of Bishop Ælfwine. English.
Archive: Fécamp
MS: PRO Cart. Ant. R. 29, no. 1 (s. xiii)
Printed: K 890.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, p. 16 n. 1, dubious; Matthew 1962, pp. 20-1.
A.D. 1044 x 1047. King Edward to the church of St Benedict (of Holme); confirmation of land at Horning, Neatishead, Hoveton, Belaugh, South Walsham, Worstead, Honing, Thurgarton, Thwaite, Calthorpe, Tottington, Erpingham, Antingham, North Walsham, Swanton Abbot, Scotton, Lamas, Easton, Hautbois, Ludham, Beeston St Lawrence, Stalham, Waxham, Winterton, Somerton, Thurn, Ashby, Rollesby, Caister-by-Yarmouth, Reedham, Norton Subcourse, Woodbastwick, Ranworth, Shotesham, Grenvills in Stoke Holy Cross, Tibenham, Norfolk. Latin with English.
Archive: St Benedict of Holme
MSS: 1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, p. 291 (s. xvi; incomplete)
2. BL Cotton Galba E. ii, 30rv (s. xiii)
3. BL Lansdowne 447, 16v-17r (s. xviii)
4. PRO Cart. Ant. R. 14, nos 1, 2 (s. xiii)
5. PRO Ch.R. 14 Edw. I, no. 46
6. PRO Ch.R. 2 Hen. IV, pt 2, no. 8
7. PRO Conf. R. 8 Eliz., no. 1
8. Bodleian, Dodsworth 10, 76v-77r (s. xvii)
9. Bodleian, Dodsworth 66, 133r-134r (s. xvii; Latin)
10. Lawrence, Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, E. 107, pp. 35-6 (s. xvii; ex 'original')
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 283-4; K 785; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 83 (no. 3); West, Benet Holme Reg., i. 3-4 ex MS 2; Conway Davies 1957, pp. 82-3 ex MS 4.
Comments: West, Benet Holme Reg., p. 5, spurious; Harmer, Writs, pp. 426, 555, spurious; Oleson 1955, p. 151, spurious; Hart, ECEE, no. 134, spurious, anachronisms in witness-list, but list of lands and their original owners may be based on authentic information; HRH, p. 233, probably spurious, but subscriptions are consistent with 1047, apart from the abbot of Evesham; Gransden 1985, p. 18, spurious; Hart 1992, p. 103, possibly a post-Conquest fabrication, but the list of donations is genuine; Keynes 1994/1, p. 49 n. 39, spurious, modelled partly on S 984.
A.D. 1042 x 1066. King Edward to St Paul's Minster, London; confirmation of privileges and of 8 hides (mansae) at Barling and 5 at Chingford, Essex. Latin.
Archive: London, St Paul's
MSS: 1. London, Guildhall, 25501, 39r (s. xiii)
2. London, Guildhall, 25504, 8v-9v (s. xii)
3. London, St Paul's, D. & C., Liber B, 21v (s. xii; lost)
Printed: Dugdale, St Paul's, p. 189 ex MSS 1, 3; Mon. Angl., iii. 304; Dugdale, St Paul's (2nd edn), Appendix, pp. 13-14; K 913 ex Dugdale; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 66.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 703, spurious, work of same forger as S 453, 752, 1035; Whitelock 1963, p. 10 n. 2, spurious; Hart, ECE, no. 56, spurious.
A.D. 1044 x 1059. King Edward declares that Abbot Mannig and the monk Æthelwig have bought land at Evenlode, Gloucs., from Eammer. Latin.
Archive: Evesham
MS: BL Cotton Vesp. B. xxiv, 40r (s. xii)
Printed: K 912; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 65.
Comments: Darlington 1933, p. 6 n. 3, spurious; Oleson 1955, p. 154, spurious; Finberg, ECWM, no. 161, spurious, dates c. 1044; HRH, p. 234, spurious, subscriptions are not consistent, dates ? 1044 x 1058.
A.D. 1044 x 1051. King Edward to Osferth; grant of 5 hides (cassati) at Lench, Worcs. Latin with note, in English, of a lease, for three lives, by Bishop Lyfing to Osferth.
Archive: Evesham
MS: BL Cotton Vesp. B. xxiv, 38r (s. xii)
Printed: K 797; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 31.
Comments: Robertson, Charters, p. 457, unacceptable as it stands, problems with witness-list; Atkins 1940, p. 22; Harmer, Writs, p. 574, on a witness, dates charter 1044 x 1051; Oleson 1955, p. 152, authentic; Chaplais 1965, p. 57, dubious (= 1973, p. 38); Finberg, ECWM, no. 356, authentic, cf. Wo 39 (S 1856); HRH, p. 234, dubious, but subscriptions are consistent; Hooke 1990, pp. 335-6, cited.
A.D. 1061 x 1066. King Edward to Peterborough Abbey; confirmation of an agreement concerning land at Scotton, Scotter and Manton, Lincs., acquired by the monk Brand and leased by him to his brother Askytel, with reversion after his death to Peterborough Abbey (when an estate at Northorpe, Lincs., is to be substituted for Manton). Latin.
Archive: Peterborough
MSS: 1. BL Egerton 2733, 31v-33v (s. xiii)
2. London, Soc. Ant., 60, 26rv (s. xii med.)
3. Peterborough, D. & C., 1, 109r (s. xiii)
4. Peterborough, D. & C., 5, 20r (s. xiii)
There is a note about this agreement and its later confirmations in London, Soc. Ant. 60, 25rv.
Printed: K 819; Pierquin, Recueil. pt 6, no. 42.
Comments: Stenton 1924, p. xli; Oleson 1955, p. 154, authentic; Lennard 1959, pp. 167-9, on background; Hart, ECEE, no. 159, not authentic, but transaction probably has a genuine basis.
A.D. 1055 x 1060. King Edward to Peterborough Abbey; confirmation of land at Walcot on Trent, near Alkborough, Lincs., given to the abbey by Asytel, the king's optimas. Latin.
Archive: Peterborough
MSS: 1. Marquess of Exeter, Burghley House, Stamford (s. xii)
2. BL Egerton 2733, 33v-34v (s. xiii)
3. London, Soc. Ant., 60, 26v-27r (s. xii med.)
4. Peterborough, D. & C., 1, 109rv (s. xiii)
5. Peterborough, D. & C., 5, 20rv (s. xiii)
Printed: K 806; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 35.
Comments: Stenton 1924, p. xli; Oleson 1955, p. 153, authentic; Hart, ECEE, no. 157 and pp. 105-6, spurious, but probably based on authentic information, MS 1 late-11th-century pseudo-original; Keynes 1980, p. 113 n. 92, spurious.
A.D. 1027 x 1035. King Edward to St Michael's Abbey (Mont Saint-Michel); grant of land at St Michael's Mount, Cornwall; and at Vennesire (? Winnianton Hundred, Cornwall) and the harbour called Ruminella (? Old Romney, Kent). Latin.
Archive: Mont Saint-Michel
MSS: 1. Avranches, Bibliothèque Municipale Edouard le Héricher, 210, 32v (s. xii; Keynes 1991/1, p. 191)
2. Exeter, Devon R.O., 'Otterton Custumal', 57r (s. xiii)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 279 ex ipso autographo at Mont-Saint-Michel; K 914; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi. 989 (no. 1); Oliver, Monasticon, p. 31 (no. 1); Delisle 1867, Pièces just., p. 20, no. 18 (extract); Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 67; Taylor 1916, p. 172 ex Oliver; Fauroux 1961, no. 76; Hull 1962, p. 61; Keynes 1991/1, p. 204.
Translated: Brown 1984, p. 139.
Comments: Oliver, Monasticon, pp. 28, 414, Additional Supplement (1854), p. 3; Delisle 1867, Pièces just., doubtful authenticity; Round 1899, no. 708; Haskins 1916, pp. 265, 267, either spurious or Edward assumed royal title in Cnut's reign; Haskins 1925, p. 273 n. 16 and p. 275; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 327-30, on identification of Ruminella; Oleson 1955, p. 154; Finberg 1960, no 100, questionable; Fauroux 1961, no. 76, possibly authentic and dated 1027 x 1035, possibly 1033 x 1034; Hull 1962, pp. x-xiii, dubious; Keynes 1991/1, pp. 190-4, may be authentic; Hooke 1994, p. 53, cited.
A.D. 1042 x 1065. King Edward confirms a grant by Ælfgifu Emma, his mother, to Old Minster, Winchester, of land at Wargrave, Berks. English.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Cotton Ch. x. 17 (s. xii; BM Facs., iv. 37)
Printed: Robertson, Charters, no. 118 (p. 218), with translation, p. 219.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, doubtful if contemporary; Stevenson 1896, p. 732 n., date shuld be 1042 x 1066 if dated by donor, although subscriptions are impossible; Harmer 1938, pp. 342, 349-51, dubious; Robertson, Charters, pp. 470-1, spurious; Gelling, ECTV, no. 135, spurious.
A.D. 1053 x 1058. Writ of King Edward declaring that his housecarl Urk is to have his shore over against his land and everything driven to his shore. English.
Archive: Abbotsbury
MSS: 1. PRO Ch.R. 8 Edw. II, m. 3, no. 5
2. PRO Conf. R. 23, no. 1 (s. xv)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i, 279 ex MS 1; K 871 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 56 (no. 4) ex MS 1; Thorpe, p. 414 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 1 (p. 120) ex MS 1, with translation.
Translated: Douglas and Greenaway, EHD II, no. 186 (p. 903).
Comment: Harmer, Writs, pp. 119-20, 425-6, probably authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 626, authentic; Keynes 1989, p. 208, cited; Pelteret 1995, p. 285.
A.D. 1058 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that Tole, Urk's widow, has his full permission to bequeath her lands and possessions to St Peter's, Abbotsbury. English.
Archive: Abbotsbury
MSS: 1. PRO Ch. R. 8 Edw. II, m. 3, no. 5
2. PRO Conf. R. 23, no. 1 (s. xv)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 279 ex MS 1; K 841 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 56 (no. 5) ex MS 1; Thorpe, pp. 426, 576 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 2 (p. 121) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 119-22, 427, probably authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 628; Keynes 1989, pp. 208-9, cited.
A.D. 1052 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Abbot Ordric for St Mary's minster at Abingdon judicial and financial rights over his own land. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 113r (s. xiii; both versions)
2. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 132r (s. xii; both versions)
3. Bodleian, Lyell 15, 32r (s. xiii/xiv; Latin only)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 51-2; K 888; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 517 (no. 12); Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 464-5; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 52; Harmer, Writs, no. 4 (pp. 131-2) ex MS 2, with translation; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 148.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 123-5, 428-9, spurious, but may be based on an authentic writ; Stenton 1971, p. 499, cited; Keynes 1980, p. 143 n. 210, spurious; Lambrick and Slade, Abingdon Cartularies, i. 51; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 148, authenticity uncertain.
A.D. 1053 x 1055 or 1058 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that Abbot Ordric and all the community of Abingdon minster are to possess the hundred of Hormer, Berks., in perpetuity. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 113r (s. xiii; both versions)
2. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 132r (s. xii; both versions)
Printed: K 840; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 517 (no. 13), English only; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 465; Earle, p. 342; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 48, Latin only; Harmer, Writs, no. 5 (p. 132) ex MS 2, with translation; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 149.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 123-31, 429, spurious, but may be based on authentic writ; Stenton 1971, pp. 499, 501, cited; PN Berks., ii. 431; Gelling, ECTV, no. 134, interpolated; Keynes 1980, p. 143 n. 210, spurious; Wormald 1995, pp. 128, 129, likely to be a forgery, exclusionary clause extremely suspicious; Wormald 1996, p. 123; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 149, deeply suspicious.
A.D. 1060 x 1065. Writ of King Edward declaring that Archbishop Ealdred has his permission to draw up a privilegium for all the lands pertaining to St John's minster at Beverley; and that the minster and its property shall be as free as any other minster, etc. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Beverley
MSS: English
1. BL Add. 61901, 87v-88r (s.. ***)
2. BL Harley 560, 23r (s. xvi/xvii)
3. BL Lansdowne 446, 89r (s. xviii)
4. PRO Ch.R. 4 Edw. II, m. 20
5. PRO Ch.R. 4 Edw. III, no. 25
6. PRO Ch. R. 1 Hen. V, pt 1, no. 5
7. PRO Ch. R. 3-4 Hen. V, m. 24
8. PRO Pat. R. 1 Ric. II, pt 3, m. 8
9. PRO Pat. R. 5 Ric. II, pt 2, m. 13
Latin
10. BL Add. 61901, 69v-70r (s. ***)
11. BL Harley 5690, 40rv (s. xvi/xvii)
12. PRO Pat. R. 6 Hen. VI, pt 2, m. 6
13. PRO Conf. R. 26, no. 13 (s. xvi)
14. PRO Conf. R. 75, no. 15
Printed: Poulson, Beverlac, i. 42 ex MS 2; K 1343 ex MS 3; Thorpe, p. 391 ex MS 3; Farrer, EYC, i. no. 87 ex MS 4; Harmer, Writs, no. 7 (p. 137) ex MS 4, with translation; Councils and Synods, no. 81 (pp. 556-7).
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 135-7, 431-3, authentic; Hart, ECNE, no. 137, authentic; Councils and Synods, pp. 555-6; Keynes 1988, p. 204 n. 110; Pelteret 1995, p. 283; Keynes 1997, p. 234.
A.D. 1042 x 1043. Writ of King Edward declaring that Abbot Ufi is to be entitled to the monastery at Bury St Edmunds and to everything pertaining thereto, and that the monastery is to retain unaltered the freedom granted to it by Cnut and Harthacnut. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: English
1. Cambridge, U.L., Add. 4220, 61r (s. xv)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 22v (s. xiii2)
3. BL Add. 14847, 30v (s. xiv)
Latin
4. Cambridge, U.L., Add. 4220, 61v (s. xv)
5. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 22v (s. xiii2)
6. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 4. 35, 3v (s. xv; incomplete)
7. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 96v (s. xv)
Printed: K 868 ex MS 2; Hervey 1907, p. 605, with translation; Harmer, Writs, no. 8 (pp. 154-5) ex MSS 2, 5, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 138-45, 433-5, authentic except perhaps for the last sentence; Hart, ECEE, no. 95, authentic.
A.D. 1043 x 1044. Writ of King Edward declaring that the land at Mildenhall, Suffolk, and the sokes of the eight and a half Thingoe hundreds are to belong to St Edmunds as fully and completely as his mother (Queen Ælfgifu) possessed them. English.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Add. 4220, 61r (s. xv)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Ee. 3. 60, 127r (s. xiv)
3. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 22r (s. xiii2)
4. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 102v (s. xv)
5. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 271r (s. xv)
6. BL Harley 638, 26r (s. xiv)
7. BL Harley 743, 59r (s. xiv)
8. PRO Ch.R. 8 Edw. II, no. 11
9. PRO Ch.R. 4 Edw. III, no. 58
10. PRO Ch.R. 7-8 Ric. II, no. 11
11. PRO Ch.R. 1 Hen. IV, pt 2, no. 2
12. PRO Ch.R. 1 Hen. V, pt 2, no. 6
13. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI, pt 2, m. 38
14. PRO Pat. R. 2 Edw. IV, pt 6, m. 21
15. PRO Conf. R. 6, no. 9 (s. xv)
16. PRO Conf. R. 14, no. 10 (s. xv)
17. PRO Conf. R. 53, no. 5 (s. xvi)
18. Bodleian, Gough Cambridge 22, 13v (s. xiv)
Printed: K 832 ex MS 3; Hervey 1907, p. 610, with translation, p. 611; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 44; Hervey 1925, i. 296 ex MS 2; Harmer, Writs, no. 9 (pp. 154-5) ex MS 6, with translation.
Comments: Davis 1909, pp. 418-19; Harmer, Writs, pp. 145-7, 435-7, authentic; Hart, ECEE, no. 106, authentic.
Writ of King Edward declaring that the sokes of the eight and half Thingoe hundreds are to belong to St Edmunds. English.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MS: BL Add. 14847, 30r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 1342; Hervey 1907, p. 610, with translation, p. 611; Harmer, Writs, no. 10 (p. 155), with translation.
Translated: Douglas and Greenaway, EHD II, no. 31 (p. 460).
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 147, 437, spurious.
A.D. 1044 x 1065 (? 1044). Writ of King Edward declaring that Abbot Leofstan and the brethren in Bury St Edmunds are to have sake and soke over all their own men both within borough and without. English.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 80 (s. xi; BM Facs., iv. 29; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, pl. 1)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 22v (s. xiii2)
3. BL Add. 14847, 30v (s. xiv)
Printed: Madox 1702, p. 290; K 894; Harmer, Writs, no. 11 (p. 156) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 139, 437-8, authentic; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, textual authenticity reasonably certain, physical authenticity of MS 1 difficult to establish; Hart, ECNE, p. 385, original; Keynes 1988, p. 215, original, p. 216 n. 183, on formulation, cf. S 1157.
A.D. 1044 x 1065. Writ of King Edward declaring that Abbot Leofstan and the brethren are to have sake and soke over the lands bequeathed to them as fully and completely as this right was enjoyed by the previous owner. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: English and Latin
1. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 22v (s. xiii2)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Mm. 4. 19, 105v (s. xiii1)
3. BL Add. 14847, 30v (s. xiv)
Latin only
4. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 4. 35, 4r (s. xv; incomplete)
Printed: K 892 ex MS 1 (English); K 1345 ex MS 2 (Latin); Hervey 1907, p. 606; Harmer, Writs, no. 12 (p. 156) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comment: Harmer, Writs, pp. 139-40, 438, authentic.
A.D. 1044 x 1047. Writ of King Edward declaring that all things lawfully pertaining to the property of St Edmund are to be the uncontested possession of that house. English.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 23rv (s. xiii2)
2. BL Add. 14847, 31r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 852 ex MS 1; Hervey 1907, p. 610, with translation, p. 611; Harmer, Writs, no. 13 (p. 157) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 139-40, 438, authentic.
A.D. 1044 x 1047. Writ of King Edward announcing that he has granted the land at Pakenham, Suffolk, to St Edmund as fully and completely as Osgot had it. English.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 23rv (s. xiii2)
2. BL Add. 14847, 31v (s. xiv)
Printed: K 851 ex MS 1; Hervey 1907, p. 610, with translation, p. 611; Harmer, Writs, no. 14 (p. 158) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Arnold, Memorials, i. 364; Harmer, Writs, pp. 148, 438-9, authentic; Robertson, Charters, p. 445, Osgot is probably Osgod Clapa; Hart, ECEE, no. 111, authentic; Lawson 1993, p. 163 n. 8, on Osgod Clapa.
c. A.D. 1051. Writ of King Edward declaring that St Edmunds inland is to be exempt from payment of heregeld and from every other render. English.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Ee. 3. 60, 127r (s. xiv)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 23r (s. xiii2)
3. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 102v (s. xv)
4. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 271r (s. xv)
5. BL Harley 14847, 31r (s. xiv)
6. BL Harley 638, 26r (s. xiv)
7. PRO Chart. Ant. R. 15, no. 3 (s. xiii)
8. PRO Ch.R. 8 Edw. II, no. 11
9. PRO Ch.R. 4 Edw. III, no. 58
10. PRO Ch.R. 7-8 Ric. II, no. 11
11. PRO Ch.R. 1 Hen. IV, pt 2, no. 2
12. PRO Ch.R. 1 Hen. V, pt 2, no. 6
13. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI, pt 2, m. 38
14. PRO Pat. R. 2 Edw. IV, pt 6, m. 21
15. PRO Conf. R. 6, no. 9 (s. xv)
16. PRO Conf. R. 14, no. 10 (s. xv)
17. PRO Conf. R. 53, no. 5 (s. xvi)
18. Bodleian, Gough Cambridge 22, 13v (s. xiv2)
Printed: K 879 ex MS 2; Hervey 1925, i. 296 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 15 (p. 158) ex MS 6, with translation; Conway Davies 1957, p. 88 ex MS 7.
Comments: Davis 1909, pp. 419-20; Harmer, Writs, pp. 139, 439-40, authentic; Hart, ECEE, no. 114, authentic; Faith 1997, p. 37, on immunity.
A.D. 1051 x 1052. Writ of King Edward declaring that his mother (Queen Ælfgifu) is to have the estate at Kirby Cane, Norfolk, as fully and completely as ever her retainer Leofstan had it. English.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 23v (s. xiii2)
2. BL Add. 14847, 31v (s. xiv)
Printed: K 876 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 16 (p. 159) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 148-9, 440, authentic; Hart, ECEE, no. 137, authentic.
Probably A.D. 1052. Writ of King Edward declaring that the monastery of St Edmunds is to possess Kirby Cane, Norfolk, with all the rights of the former owners. The land is illegally occupied by Semer. English.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 23r (s. xiii2)
2. BL Add. 14847, 31r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 878 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 17 (p. 159) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 148-9, 440, authentic; Hart, ECEE, no. 139 and p. 90, authentic; Wormald 1988, no. 89.
A.D. 1052 or 1053 x 1057. Writ of King Edward declaring that the monastery at Bury St Edmunds is to possess the sokes of the eight and a half hundreds which he has given to that house, as fully and completely as ever his mother (Queen Ælfgifu) had them, and he himself possessed them. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: English
1. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 22rv (s. xiii2)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 4. 35, 23v (s. xv; incomplete)
3. BL Add. 14847, 30r (s. xiv)
Latin
4. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 22v (s. xiii2)
5. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 4. 35, 3v-4r (s. xv; incomplete)
6. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 97r (s. xv)
7. BL Add. 5846, 18r (s. xviii)
8. BL Add. 14847, 30rv (s. xiv)
Printed: K 883 ex MS 1; K 905 ex MS 7; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 138 (no. 7) ex MS 7; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 58; Harmer, Writs, no. 18 (p. 160) ex MSS 1, 4, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 147-8, 440-2; Gransden 1985, p. 12, cited; Dumville 1993, pp. 36-7..
A.D. 1051 x 1052 or 1053 x 1057. Writ of King Edward declaring that the soke previously granted by him to St Edmunds is now to belong to that house as fully and completely as he himself possessed it. English.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 22v (s. xiii2)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 4. 35, 23v (s. xv; incomplete)
3. BL Add. 14847, 30v (s. xiv)
4. BL Harley 743, 59v (s. xiv)
Printed: K 884 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 19 (p. 161) ex MS 4, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 139, 442, authentic.
A.D. 1051 x 1052 or 1053 x 1057. Writ of King Edward declaring that the land at Coney Weston, Suffolk, is to belong to St Edmunds monastery with everything which is known to pertain lawfully to that house. English.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 23r (s. xiii2)
2. BL Add. 14847, 31v (s. xiv)
Printed: K 880 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 20 (p. 162) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 149, 442-3; Hart, ECEE, no. 115, authentic.
A.D. 1051 x 1052 or 1053 x 1057. Writ of King Edward declaring that Ælfric Modercope has his full permission to commend himself to the abbots of Bury and of Ely. English.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 23r (s. xiii2)
2. BL Add. 14847, 31v (s. xiv)
Printed: K 877 ex MS 1; Thorpe, p. 416; Harmer, Writs, no. 21 (p. 162) ex MS 1, with translation.
Translated: Douglas and Greenaway, EHD II, no. 182 (p. 900).
Comments: Douglas 1932, pp. cxi-ii; Harmer, Writs, pp. 149-50, 443, authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 491, example of commendation; Douglas and Greenaway, EHD II, p. 900; Abels 1988, p. 150; Reynolds 1994, pp. 332-3.
A.D. 1051 x 1052 or 1053 x 1057. Writ of King Edward testifying to Ælfric Modercope's grant of Loddon, Norfolk, after his death to the monastery at Bury St Edmunds. English.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 22v-23r (s. xiii2)
2. BL Add. 14847, 31r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 882 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 22 (p. 163) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Douglas 1932, pp. cxi-ii; Harmer, Writs, pp. 149-50, 443, authentic; Hart, ECEE, no. 138, authentic.
A.D. 1065 x 1066. Writ of King Edward announcing the appointment of Baldwin as abbot of Bury. English.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 22v (s. xiii2)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 4. 35, 23v (s. xv; incomplete)
3. BL Add. 14847, 30v-31r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 881 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 23 (pp. 163-4) ex MS 1, with translation; Councils and Synods, no. 84 (pp. 561-2).
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 140, 443, authentic; Councils and Synods, p. 561; Keynes 1988, p. 216 n. 183, on formulation; Keynes 1997, p. 240 n.
A.D. 1065 x 1066. Writ of King Edward confirming to the monastery at Bury St Edmunds the sokes of the eight and a half hundreds (after the appointment of Baldwin as abbot of Bury). English.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 49 (s. xi2; BM Facs., iv. 39; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, pl. 2)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Ee. 3. 60, 127r (s. xiv)
3. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 22v (s. xiii2)
4. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 4. 35, 23v (s. xv; incomplete)
5. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 102v (s. xv)
6. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 271r (s. xv)
7. BL Add. 14847, 30v (s. xiv)
8. BL Harley 638, 26r (s. xiv)
9. PRO Chart. Ant. R. 15, no. 2 (s. xiii)
10. PRO Ch.R. 8 Edw. II, no. 11
11. PRO Ch.R. 4 Edw. III, no. 58
12. PRO Ch.R. 7-8 Ric. II, no. 11
13. PRO Ch.R. 1 Hen. IV, pt 2, no. 2
14. PRO Ch.R. 1 Hen. V, pt 2, no. 6
15. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI, pt 2, m. 38
16. PRO Pat. R. 2 Edw. IV, pt 6, m. 21
17. PRO Conf. R. 6, no. 9 (s. xv)
18. PRO Conf. R. 14, no. 10 (s. xv)
19. PRO Conf. R. 53, no. 5 (s. xvi)
20. Bodleian, Gough Cambridge, 22, 13v (s. xiv2)
Printed: K 874 ex MS 1; Hervey 1925, i. 295; Harmer, Writs, no. 24 (pp. 164-5) ex MS 1, with translation; Conway Davies 1957, p. 87 ex MS 9.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 147-8, 443-4, authentic, MS 1 contemporary; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, the text is apparently free from any suspicious features; Chaplais 1966/1, p. 175 and n. 24, MS 1 probably written at Bury (= 1973, p. 60 n. 124); Hart, ECNE, p. 385, original; Gransden 1985, p. 12; Keynes 1988, p. 215 n. 181, queries Bury identity of scribe of MS 1; Dumville 1993, p. 37 n. 140, cited.
A.D. 1065 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Abbot Baldwin a moneyer within Bury St Edmunds. English.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Ee. 3. 60, 127r (s, xiv)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 23r (s. xiii2)
3. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 102v (s. xv)
4. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 271r (s. xv)
5. BL Add. 14847, 31r (s. xiv)
6. BL Harley 638, 26r (s. xiv)
7. PRO Chart. Ant. R. 15, no. 4 (s. xiii)
8. PRO Ch.R. 8 Edw. II, no. 11
9. PRO Ch.R. 4 Edw. III, no. 58
10. PRO Ch.R. 7-8 Ric. II, no. 11
11. PRO Ch.R. 1 Hen. IV, pt 2, no. 2
12. PRO Ch.R. 1 Hen. V, pt 2, no. 6
13. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI, pt 2, m. 38
14. PRO Pat. R. 2 Edw. IV, pt 6, m. 21
15. PRO Conf. R. 6, no. 9 (s xv)
16. PRO Conf. R. 14, no. 10 (s. xv)
17. PRO Conf. R. 53, no. 5 (s. xvi)
18. Bodleian, Gough Cambridge 22, 13v (s. xiv)
Printed: Battely 1745, p. 134 ex MS 2; K 875 ex MS 6; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 138 (no. 8) ex MS 2; Thorpe, p. 415; Hervey 1925, i. 296 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 25 (p. 165) ex MS 7, with translation; Conway Davies 1957, p. 88 ex MS 7.
Comments: Davis 1909, p. 420; Harmer, Writs, pp. 150-1, 444-6, authentic; Hart, ECEE, no. 119, authentic; Chaplais 1966, p. 19, probably drafted at Bury (= 1981, XV p. 19); Gransden 1985, p. 12; Pelteret 1995, pp. 281-2.
A.D. 1042 x 1044 or 1048 x 1050. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Archbishop Eadsige and the monks of Christ Church all the lands they had in the time of the king's father and of all his predecessors. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 16 (s. xv)
2. Bodleian, Tanner, 223, 20rv (s. xvi)
Printed: Harmer, Writs, no. 31 (p. 185) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 178, 451, authenticity extremely doubtful; Wormald 1995, p. 129, on a formula.
A.D. 1042 x 1044 or 1048 x 1050. Writ of King Edward forbidding hunting in the woods or lands of Archbishop Eadsige except by the archbishop's command or licence. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 332 (s. xiii)
2. Bodleian, Tanner 223, 21v (s. xvi)
Printed: Harmer, Writs, no. 32 (pp. 185-6) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 178-80, 451, dubious authenticity.
A.D. 1052 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Archbishop Stigand and the community at Christ Church judicial and financial rights over their own men and over as many thegns as he has granted them to have. English.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. BL Campbell Ch. xxi. 5 (ll. 1-3, s. xi med.; ll. 4-10, s. xii1; BM Facs., iv., plate after no. 37; Harmer, Writs, plate 1; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, pl. 3; English Romanesque Art, p. 30)
2. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. I, 58r (s. xiii2)
3. BL Stowe 665, 73r (s. xviii)
4. London, Lambeth Palace, 582, p. 101 (s. xvii; incomplete)
5. PRO Pat. R. 12 Hen. VI, pt 2, m. 9
6. PRO Conf. R. 19, no. 4 (s. xv)
7. PRO Conf. R. 27, no. 6 (s. xvi)
Printed: Birch 1874, p. 146; Harmer, Writs, no. 33 (p. 186) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer 1938, p. 347; Harmer, Writs, pp. 173-5, 451-2, an authentic writ, with all but the first three lines rewritten later; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, authentic writ but altered at Christ Church in s. xii; Chaplais 1966, pp. 18-19 (= 1981, XV pp. 18-19); Chaplais 1966/1, p. 175 n. 124 (= 1973, p. 60 n. 124); Dumville 1983, pp. 49-50, attributes 12th-century tampering to the scribe of ASC MS F (BL Cotton Domitian viii), cf. also S 1221; Brooks 1984, p. 388 n. 140; English Romanesque Art, p. 30, on seal; Golden Age, p. 167 (no. 170); Keynes 1988, p. 215 n. 180; Wormald 1995, p. 129, on a formula.
A.D. 1052 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Archbishop Stigand and the community at Christ Church all the lands that they had in the time of his predecessors and in his own time. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: English
1. Canterbury, D. & C., Chart. Ant. C. 3 (s. xi/xii; Harmer 1938, facing p. 339)
2. Canterbury, D. & C., C. 204 (s. xiii)
3. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. A, 148v (s. xiii)
4. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. E, 53v (s. xiii)
5. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. I, 58rv (s. xiii2)
6. BL Add. 6159, 7r (s. xiv)
7. PRO Pat. R. 12 Hen. VI, pt 2, m. 9
8. PRO Conf. R. 19, no. 4 (s. xv)
9. PRO Conf. R. 27, no. 6 (s. xvi)
Latin
10. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, 201rv (s. xii)
11. Canterbury, D. & C., C. 204 (s. xiii)
12. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. A, 79rv (s. xv)
13. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. P, 26r (s. xii)
14. BL Add. 6159, 10r (s. xiv)
15. BL Harley 1757, 172r (s. xvi)
16, London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, pp. 330-1 (s. xiii)
Printed: Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2224; K 909 ex MS 12; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 68; Harmer, Writs, no. 34 (p. 187) ex MSS 9, 11, with translation.
Comments: Harmer 1938, pp. 347-9; Harmer, Writs, pp. 175-8, 452-3, authenticity unclear, may be expanded version of genuine writ or a post-Conquest fabrication; Wormald 1995, pp. 128, 129.
A.D. 1053 x 1061. Writ of King Edward declaring that the land at Mersham, Kent, is to belong to Christ Church with sake and soke, as fully and completely as Sigweard and his wife granted it to that house. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: English
1. BL Cotton Claud. A. iii, 5v (s. xi)
2. Bodleian, Gough Berks, 20, 12v (s. xviii)
Latin
3. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, 201v (s. xii)
4. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. C, 237r (s. xv)
5. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. P, 26v (s, xii)
6. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 332 (s. xiii)
7. Bodleian, Tanner 223, 21rv (s. xvi)
Printed: Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2224 ex MS 3; K 847 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 99 (no. 6) ex MS 1; H.M.C. Eighth Report, Appendix, p. 328 ex MS 4; Harmer, Writs, no. 35 (p. 189) ex MSS 1, 4, with translation; Fleming 1997, pp. 146-7 (no. 78) ex MS 5.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 180-1, 453-4, authentic; Ker, Catalogue, pp. 239-40 (no. 185), art. b, dates MS 1 to s. xi2; Chaplais 1966, pp. 18-19, cited (=1981, XV pp. 18-19); Brooks 1984, p. 308; Wormald 1988, no. 92; Kelly, St Augustine's. p. xxxii n. 57, on estate history.
Note. K 847 and Mon. Angl. wrongly print witnesses with this text.
A.D. 1042 x 1050. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to the brethren of St Augustine's (Canterbury) judicial and financial rights over their own men, and over as many thegns as he has granted them to have. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Canterbury, St Augustine's Abbey
MSS: English
1. Canterbury, D. & C., Chart. Ant. F. 47 (s. xv)
2. PRO Chart. Ant. R. 9, no. 12 (s. xiii)
3. PRO E 132/1, no. 2, m. 12 (s. xiii)
4. PRO Ch.R. 8 Hen. IV, m. 6
5. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI, pt 3, m. 5 (art. 12)
6. PRO Pat. R. 4 Edw. IV, pt 4, m. 29 (art. 11)
Latin
7. Canterbury, D. & C., Chart. Ant. F. 47 (s. xv)
8. Canterbury, D. & C., Lit. E. 19, 94r (s, xiv; incomplete)
9. BL Cotton Claud. D. x, 57r (s. xiii)
10. BL Cotton Jul. D. ii, 87r (s. xiii)
11. London, Lambeth Palace, 419, 122v (s. xiv; incomplete)
12. PRO E 164/27, 147v-148r (s. xiii)
13. Bodleian, James 22, p. 108 (s. xvii; incomplete)
Printed: Somner 1726, pp. 206-7 ex MS 11; K 831 ex MS 2*; K 902 ex MS 9; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 139 (no. 37) ex MS 9; Thorpe, p. 420 ex MS 9; Essays, pp. 46-7 ex MS 9; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 55; Harmer, Writs, no. 38 (p. 199) ex MSS 5, 9, with translation; Kelly, St Augustine's, no. 35.
Comments: Essays, pp. 47-8; Harmer, Writs, pp. 197, 457, authentic; Keynes 1988, p. 216 n. 183; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 128-9, English version may be authentic; Wormald 1996, p. 123.
A.D. 1053 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that the land at Fordwich, Kent, previously granted by him to St Augustine's, is now to belong to the monastery with all the rights with which he has granted it to that house. English.
Archive: Canterbury, St Augustine's
MSS: 1. Canterbury, D. &. C., Chart. Ant. F. 47 (s. xv)
2. BL Add. 29437, 118v (s. xvii)
3. BL Add. 53710, 224r (s. xiv)
4. BL Cotton Claud. D. x, 63v (s. xiv)
5. BL Cotton Claud. D. x, 175r (s. xiii)
6. BL Cotton Faust. A. i, 84v (s. xv)
7. London, Lambeth Palace, 419, 123r (s. xiv; incomplete)
8. PRO Ch.R. 20 Edw. II, m. 2
9. PRO Ch.R. 36 Edw. III, m. 7
10. PRO Ch.R. 8 Hen. IV, m. 6
11. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI, pt 3, m. 5
12. PRO Pat. R. 4 Edw. IV, pt 4, no. 29
13. PRO Pat. R. 14 Hen. VII, pt 1 m. 16
Printed: Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2128 ex MS 3; K 854 ex MS 5; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 142 (no. 49) ex MS 5; Turner 1915, i. 144 ex MS 6; Harmer, Writs, no. 39 (p. 200)ex MS 5 etc., with translation; Kelly, St Augustine's, no. 39 ex MSS 1, 5.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 197, 457-9, authentic; Sparks and Tatton-Brown 1987, p. 203, on estate history; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 135-6, probably authentic.
A.D. 1053 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Chertsey Abbey, Chertsey, Egham, Thorpe and Chobham, Surrey, with judicial and financial rights. English.
Archive: Chertsey
MS: BL Cotton Vitell. A. xiii, 50v (s. xiii)
Printed: K 848; Harmer, Writs, no. 40 (p. 208), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 205-8, 459-60, authenticity dubious; Gelling, ECTV, no. 345, spurious.
A.D. 1053 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Chertsey Abbey, Chertsey, Egham, Thorpe and Chobham, with the hundred of Godley, Surrey, with judicial and financial rights. English.
Archive: Chertsey
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Vitell. A. xiii, 50rv (s. xiii)
2. PRO Chart. Ant. R. 4, no. 7 (s. xiii)
3. BL Harley 84, 41r (s. xvii; ex 2)
Printed: K 850 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 429 (no. 7) ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 41 (p. 209) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 2035-8, 460, authenticity in doubt; Gelling, ECTV, no. 346, spurious.
A.D. 1058 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Chertsey Abbey and to Abbot Wulfwold the hundred of Godley, Surrey, and that the abbot is to have judicial and financial rights over all his men and over his lands. English.
Archive: Chertsey
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Vitell. A. xiii, 50r (s. xiii)
2. PRO Chart. Ant. R. 4, no. 8 (s. xiii)
3. BL Harley 84, 41v (s. xvii; ex 2)
Printed: K 849 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl., i. 429 (no. 6) ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 42 (p. 210) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 203-5, 460-1, authenticity in doubt; Stenton 1971, p. 501, cited; Gelling, ECTV, no. 348, spurious; Wormald 1995, p. 128, exclusionary clause suspicious.
A.D. 1058 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Wulfwold, abbot of Chertsey, sake and soke over his lands in London and over his own men. English.
Archive: Chertsey
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Vitell. A. xiii, 50v-51r (s. xiii)
2. PRO Chart. Ant. R. 4, no. 9 (s. xiii)
3. Bodleian, James 24, p. 33 (s. xvii)
4. BL Harley 84, 41v (s. xvii; ex 2)
Printed: K 856 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 430 (no. 8) ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 43 (p. 211) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 201-2, 461, authentic; Stenton 1970, pp. 33-4, cited; Brooks and Keir 1975, p. 368, genuine; Gelling, ECTV, no. 245, authentic; Dumville 1992, pp. 52-3, may be authentic.
A.D. 1042 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that Regenbald his priest is to have judicial and financial rights over his land and over his men, as fully and completely as any of his predecessors in the days of King Cnut. English.
Archive: Cirencester
MS: Lady Vestey, Stowell Park, Northleach, Registrum A, p. 26 (s. xiii)
Printed: Harmer, Writs, no. 44 (p. 214), with translation; Ross, Cirencester Cart., p. 19.
Translated: Douglas and Greenaway, EHD II, no. 34 (p. 461).
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 211-13, 461, authentic; Finberg, ECWM, no. 169, authentic; Douglas and Greenaway, EHD II, p. 461; Keynes 1988, for the beneficiary; Keynes 1997, p. 240 n.
Writ of King Edward declaring that he confirms the gifts made by Earl Leofric and Godgifu (Godiva) to Abbot Leofwine and the brethren at Coventry minster. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Coventry
MSS: 1. BL Add. Ch. 28657 (s. xii; Birch 1889)
2. BL Add. 32100, 115v (s. xvi; Latin version)
3. BL Cotton Claud. A. viii, 81rv (s. xvi)
4. Bodleian, Dugdale 13, pp. 440-1 (s. xvii)
5. Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Birthplace Library, Gregory Leiger-Book (dep.), pp. 25-6 (s. xiv; Latin version)
Printed: Harmer, Writs, no. 45 (pp. 219-21)ex MSS 1, 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 214-18, 462-3, spurious; Lancaster 1954, pp. 113-14, 123-4, spurious; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, p. xxii n. 1, forged by the same hand as BL Add. Ch. 11205, p. xxiii n. 2; Davis 1971, esp. pp. 543-4, probably forged in Stephen's reign; Hart, ECNE, no. 77, spurious; BA Facs., p. 11, on scribe of MS 1.
A.D. 1043 x 1053. Writ of King Edward declaring that Abbot Leofwine of Coventry is to have judicial and financial rights over the land and over his men, as fully and completely as Earl Leofric had. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Coventry
MSS: 1. Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Birthplace Library, Gregory Leiger-Book (dep.), pp. 23-4 (s. xiv; both versions)
2. BL Add. 32100, 115v (s. xvi; Latin only)
Printed: Harmer, Writs, no. 46 (p. 222) ex MS 2; Harmer 1959, p. 103, from MS 1.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 218-19, 463-4, authentic; Lancaster 1954; Harmer 1959, pp. 98-100, authentic; Hart, ECNE, no. 76, authentic.
A.D. 1045 x 1066, possibly 1055 x 1066. Writs of King Edward announcing that he has appointed Wulfric to the office of abbot of Ely with full privileges. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Ely
MSS: English
1. Cambridge, Trinity College, O. 2. 1, 79r (s. xii2)
2. Cambridge, Trinity College, O. 2. 41, p. 104 (s. xii med.)
3. Ely, D. & C., Liber Eliensis, 77r (s. xiii)
4. BL Cotton Tib. A. vi, 102v-103r (s. xii2)
5. Bodleian, James 10, p. 90 (s. xvii)
6. Bodleian, Laud. Misc. 647, 47v (s. xii)
Latin
7. Cambridge, Trinity College, O. 2. 1, 79r (s. xii)
8. Ely, D. & C., Liber Eliensis, 77r (s. xiii)
Printed: Harmer, Writs, no. 47 (pp. 224-5) ex MSS 4, 7, with translation; Blake, Liber Eliensis, p. 164 ex MS 8; Councils and Synods, no. 68 (p. 521).
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 222-4, 464, authentic; Ker, Catalogue, p. 137 (no. 93), art. b, on MS 1, pp. 150-1 (no. 113), art b., on MS 2; Blake, Liber Eliensis, p. 419; Councils and Synods, pp. 520-1; Keynes 1988, p. 216 n. 183; Crosby 1994, p. 154, authentic; Keynes 1997, p. 240 n.
A.D. 1057 x 1060. Writ of King Edward declaring that the priests of St Æthelberht's, Hereford, are to have their sake and soke over all their men and all their lands as fully and completely as ever they had it. Latin and English versions.
Archive: Hereford
MS: Bodleian, Rawl. B. 329, 104r (s. xv; both versions)
Printed: Mon. Angl., iii. 181; K 867; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi. 1212 (no. 2) Latin only; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 51, Latin only; Harmer, Writs, no. 49 (p. 230).
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 227-9, 465-6, authentic; Finberg, ECWM, no. 423, authentic; Crosby 1994, pp. 278-80, authentic, discusses background.
A.D. 1061 x 1066, probably 1061. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Bishop Walter the bishopric of Hereford. Latin.
Archive: Hereford
MS: Bodleian, Rawl. B. 329, 104v (s. xv)
Printed: K 833; Thorpe, p. 380; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 44; Harmer, Writs, no. 50 (p. 231); Councils and Synods, no. 80 (pp. 554-5).
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 224-30, 466, authentic; Finberg, ECWM, no. 425, authentic; Councils and Synods, p. 554; Keynes 1988, p. 216 n. 183; Crosby 1994, p. 280, on background; Keynes 1997, p. 240 n.
1042 x 1044. Writ of King Edward declaring that his men in the gild of English cnihtas are to have their sake and soke within borough and without over their land and over their men, and as good laws as they had in the days of King Edgar and of the king's father and of Cnut. English.
Archive: London, the English Cnihtengild
MSS: 1. Glasgow, U.L., Hunter U. 2. 6, 149r (s. xv)
2. London, Corporation of London Records Office, Letter Book C, 134v (s. xv)
3. London, Corporation of London, Records Office, Liber Dunthorne, 79r (s. xv)
Printed: Coote 1881, p. 481 n., with translation pp. 480-1; Sharpe 1901, p. 218; Ballard 1913, p. 127; Harmer, Writs, no. 51 (pp. 234-5) ex MS 1, with translation.
Translated: Brooke and Keir 1975, pp. 96-7; Douglas and Greenaway, EHD II, no. 273 (p. 1015).
Comments: Page 9123, pp. 135-6, 154-5; Stenton 1932, p. 135 n. 1; Harmer, Writs, pp. 231-4, 466-8; Stenton 1970, pp. 32-3; Brooke and Keir 1975, pp. 96-8, 368, genuine, p. 371, on port-reeve; Douglas and Greenaway, EHD II, p. 1015; Haslam 1988; Keynes 1988, p. 216 n. 183; Brooke 1989, p. 34.
A.D. 1042 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that his priests in St Pauls's minster shall be entitled to sake and soke within borough and without, and to as good laws as they ever had in the time of any king or any bishop; and they shall not receive into their community any more priests than their estates can bear and they themselves desire. English.
Archive: London, St Paul's
MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Ee. 5. 21, 97r (s. xv)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Ee. 5. 21, 128rv (s. xv)
3. BL Cotton Jul. C. vii, 198v (s. xvi/xvii)
4. BL Harley R. I. 1 (s. xv)
5. BL Lansdowne 446, 91r (s. xviii)
6. BL Stowe 666, 67v (s. xviii)
7. PRO Ch.R. 9 Edw. II, m. 2
8. PRO Ch.R. 12 Edw. III., m. 8
9. PRO Ch.R. 11-13 Ric. II, m. 22
10. PRO Ch.R. 5-20, Hen. VI, no. 12
11. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI. pt 3, mm. 15-14
12. PRO Conf. R. 5, no. 10 (s. xv)
13. PRO Conf. R. 11, no. 9 (s. xv)
14. PRO Conf. R. 16, no. 11 (s. xv)
15. PRO DL 42/149, 113r (s. xvi)
16. London, St Paul's, D. & C., A Box 69, dorse (s. xiii) [check Guildhall no.]
17. London, Guildhall, 25501, 1r (s. xiii)
18. London, St Paul's, D. & C., Liber B, 21v (s. xiii; lost)
19. Bodleian, James 25, p. 155 (s. xvii)
20. Oxford, Exeter Coll., 137, 91r (s. xvii)
Printed: Dugdale, St Paul's, p. 190 ex MS 18; Mon. Angl., iii. 304; Dugdale, St Paul's (2nd edn), Appendix, p. 14; K 887; Thorpe. p. 416, Gibbs 1939, p. 9; Harmer, Writs, no. 54 (p. 242) ex Dugdale, with translation.
Comments: Gibbs 1939, p. xxi; Harmer, Writs, pp. 237-9, 469-70, probably an authentic basis with interpolation; Gelling, ECTV, no. 253, citing Harmer, some tampering, but authentic; Keynes 1988, p. 216 n. 183; Crosby 1994, p. 314.
Note. MS 3 is a 'facsimile' copy of the original, with reproduction of its seal (see also MS 15).
A.D. 1053 x 1057. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to the monastery of Saint-Denis beyond the sea land at Taynton, Oxon., and the bishop (of Dorchester) is to draw up a charter (boc) concerning it with his full permission. English.
Archive: Paris, Saint-Denis
MSS: 1. Paris, Archives nationales, Cartons des rois, K. 19, no. 6 (s. xi med.; BA Facs., 20; Barlow 1970, pl. 6, opp. p. 105; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, p. 18; Harmer, Writs, pl. 2)
2. Paris, Archives nationales, LL 1156, 83r-84r (s. xiii)
Printed: Sweet, Reader, p. 59; Harmer, Writs, no. 55 (p. 245), with translation; other versions as in S 1028.
Translated: Brown 1984, pp. 131-2 (no. 158).
Comments: Doüet D'Arcq, no. 9997; Harmer, Writs, pp. 243-4, 470-1, authentic; PN Oxon., ii. 385; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, authentic; Sweet, Reader, pp. 248-9; Brooks and Keir 1975, pp. 296-7, cited; Gelling, ECTV, no. 299, original; Keynes 1988, pp. 199, 215, 216 n. 183; BA Facs., p. 7; Heslop 1992, p. 302 nn. 9, 10, on seal; cf. S 1028.
A.D. 1043 x 1049. Writ of King Edward declaring that St Benedict of Ramsey is to have the land at Hemingford, Hunts,, with everything pertaining thereto as fully and completely as King Harthacnut and Queen Ælfgifu Emma granted it to that church. Latin.
Archive: Ramsey
MSS: 1. PRO E. 164/28, 159r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Rawl. B. 333, 21v (s. xiv1)
Printed: Gale, Scriptores XV, ii. 455, cap. cx ex MS 1; K 906 ex Gale; Macray, Chron. Ramsey, p. 164 ex MS 1; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 59; Harmer, Writs, no. 58 (pp. 257-8) ex MS 2.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 245-6, 472, probably authentic; Hart, ECEE, no. 38, authentic; cf. S 997.
A.D. 1050 x 1052. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Ramsey Abbey the land at Broughton, Hunts., which he himself possessed, with sake and soke. Latin.
Archive: Ramsey
MSS: 1. PRO E. 164/28, 159r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Rawl. B. 333, 21v (s. xiv1)
Printed: Gale, Scriptores XV, ii. 455, cap. cxi ex MS 1; K 903 ex Gale; Macray, Chron. Ramsey, p. 165 ex MS 1; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 56; Harmer, Writs, no. 59 (p. 258) ex MS 2.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 245-6, 472, seems generally authentic but anathema is suspicious; Hart, ECEE, no. 42, authentic basis, discusses hidation; Davies 1972, p. 463, cited.
A.D. 1053 x 1057. Writ of King Edward declaring that the soke within Bichamdic (cf. Beechamwell, Norfolk) is to belong to Ramsey Abbey as fully and completely as it was first given to that church. Latin.
Archive: Ramsey
MSS: 1. PRO E. 164/28, 159r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Rawl. B. 333, 21r (s. xiv1)
Printed: Gale, Scriptores XV, ii. 455, cap. cix ex MS 1; Macray, Chron. Ramsey, p. 164 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 60 (pp. 258-9) ex MS 2.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 246-8, 472-3, authentic, the soke infra Bichamdic was that of the hundred and a half of Clackclose, appurtenant to the Ramsey manor of Wimsbotsham; Hart, ECEE, no. 140, authentic.
Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Ramsey Abbey judicial and financial rights and shipwreck and what is cast up by the sea at Brancaster and Ringstead, the soke within Bichamdic (cf. S 1108), the market at Downham, Norfolk, and judicial and financial rights in every shire in which St Benedict of Ramsey has land. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Ramsey
MSS: English
1. Huntingdon, Cambs., County R.O., SM27/465 (Acc. 2244) (s. xiv; original Inspeximus)
2. Huntingdon, Cambs., County R.O., SM 27/465 (Acc. 970) (s. **; ex 1)
3. BL Add. 4936, 179v-180r (s. xviii)
4. BL Add. Ch. 33686 (s. xvi)
5. BL Cotton Otho B. xiv, 263v (s. xiv)
6. PRO Ch.R. 8 Edw. III, no. 29
7. PRO Pat. R. 2 Ric. II, pt 2, m. 23
8. PRO Pat. R. 4 Edw. IV, pt 4, m. 4
9. PRO Conf. R. 18, no. 2 (s. xv)
10. PRO Conf. R. 30, no. 4 (s. xvi)
11. PRO E. 164/28, 59v-60r (s. xiv)
12. PRO E. 164/28, 170rv (s. xiv)
Latin
13. PRO E. 164/28, 60r (s. xiv)
14. PRO E. 164/28, 158v (s. xiv)
15. Bodleian, Rawl. B. 333, 21r (s. xiv1)
16. Bodleian, Tanner 12, 42v (s. xvi; incomplete)
Printed: Gale, Scriptores XV, ii. 454 ex MS 14; K 853 ex MSS 3, 14; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 560 (no. 10) ex MS 3; Thorpe, pp. 421-3 ex MSS 3, 14; Macray, Chron. Ramsey, pp. 162-3 ex MS 14; Hart and Lyons, Ramsey Cart., i. 218-22, ii. 80-1 ex MSS 11, 12, 13, 14; Earle, pp. 343-6 ex MS 5; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 50 ex K; Harmer, Writs, no. 61 (pp. 259-61) ex MSS 6, 15.
Translated: Harmer 1938, pp. 358-9.
Comments: Essays, pp. 50-1; Harmer 1938, pp. 356-63, spurious; Harmer, Writs, pp. 249-52, 473-8, spurious, address points to a date 1057/8 x 1066, while the witnesses are appropriate for 1045 x 1053; Hart, ECEE, no. 135, spurious; Abels 1988, p. 244 n. 50; Pelteret 1995, pp. 277-8, 282.
Writ of King Edward declaring that he has confirmed the exchange of land at Luton, Northants., for land at Marholm, Northants., and the agreement made between Ælfwine, abbot of Ramsey, and Leofric, abbot of Peterborough; and has also confirmed the boundaries along King Cnut's Delph, Northants., as Ælfwine, abbot of Ramsey, proved his claim to them against Siward, abbot of Thorney. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Ramsey
MSS: English
1. Huntingdon, Cambs., County R.O., SM27/465 (Acc. 2244) (s. xiv; original Inspeximus)
2. Huntingdon, Cambs., County R.O., SM 27/465 (Acc. 970) (s. **; ex 1)
3. BL Add. 4936, 179rv (s. xviii)
4. BL Add. Ch. 33686 (s. xvi)
5. BL Cotton Otho B. xiv, 263rv (s. xiv)
6. PRO Ch.R. 8 Edw. III, no. 29
7. PRO Pat. R. 3 Ric. II, pt 2, m. 23
8. PRO Pat. R. 4 Edw. IV, pt 4, m. 4
9. PRO Conf. R. 18, no. 2 (s. xv)
10. PRO Conf, R. 30, no. 4 (s. xvi)
11. PRO E 164/28, 52v-53r (s. xiv)
12. PRO E 164/28, 169v-170r (s. xiv)
Latin
13. PRO E. 164/28, 53rv (s. xiv)
14. PRO E. 164/28, 159v (s. xiv)
15. Bodleian, Rawl. B. 333, 21v-22r (s. xiv1)
Printed: Gale, Scriptores XV, ii. 456 ex MS 14; K 904 ex Gale; Macray, Chron. Ramsey, pp. 167-9 ex MS 14; Hart and Lyons, Ramsey Cart., i. 188-93, ii. 79-80 ex MSS 11, 12, 13, 14; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 57 ex K; Harmer, Writs, no. 62 (pp. 262-4)ex MSS 6, 15.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 252-6, 478-92, spurious, but address may have been taken from an authentic writ of 1055 x 1065; Hart, ECEE, no. 45, corrupt; HRH, p. 236, spurious; Hart, ECNE, no. 25, authentic; Wormald 1988, no. 93.
A.D. 1060 x 1061 (? 1061). Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to his priest Giso the bishopric at Wells and everything pertaining thereto, with sake and with soke, as fully and completely as ever it was held by Bishop Duduc or any bishop before him. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Wells
MSS: 1. Wells, D. & C., Liber Albus I, 14r (s. xiii; English)
2. Wells, D. & C., Liber Albus I, 14v (s. xiii; Latin)
Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., pp. 160-1; K 835; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 286 (no. 4); Thorpe, p. 387; Harmer, Writs, no. 64 (p. 277), with translation; Councils and Synods, no. 76 (pp. 547-8), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 272, 486-7, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 534, authentic; Councils and Synods, pp. 546-7; Keynes 1988, pp. 203, 216 n. 183, on formulation; Crosby 1994, pp. 48-50, on background; Keynes 1997, pp. 227-8, 240, 255, on Giso and background, cf. S 1102.
A.D. 1061 x 1065 (? 1061). Writ of King Edward declaring that Bishop Giso is to have the bishopric of Wells and everything lawfully belonging thereto as fully and completely as any of his predecessors. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Wells
MS: Wells, D. & C., Liber Albus I, 14rv (s. xiii; both versions)
Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 144 (plate), 161; K 838; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 287 (no. 5); Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 46; Harmer, Writs, no. 65 (pp. 278-9), with translation; Councils and Synods, no. 79 (pp. 553-4), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 272, 487-8, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 535, authentic; Councils and Synods, pp. 552-3; Keynes 1988, p. 203, on background; Crosby 1994, pp. 48-50, on background; Keynes 1997, pp. 228-9, 240, 255, on background.
A.D. 1061 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that Bishop Giso is to discharge the obligations on his land at Chew, Somerset, now at the same rate as his predecessor had done. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Wells
MS: Wells, Liber Albus I, 17v-18r (s. xiii; both versions)
Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., pp. 162-3; K 836; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 287 (no. 9); Harmer, Writs, no. 66 (p. 280), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 272-3, 488, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 537, authentic; Keynes 1988, p. 216 n. 183, on formulation, cf. S 987; Crosby 1994, pp. 48-50, on background; Keynes 1997, pp. 229, 255, on background.
Writ of King Edward declaring that Bishop Giso is to discharge the obligations on his land now at the same rate as his predecessor had done. English.
Archive: Wells
MSS: 1. Wells, D. & C., Liber Albus II, 21v-22r (s. xv/xvi)
2. Wells, D. & C., Liber Fuscus, 14r (s. xiv)
Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 162 n.; K 834; Harmer, Writs, no. 67 (pp. 280-1), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 273, 488, probably spurious, version of S 1113 with the place-name omitted; Finberg, ECW, no. 538, spurious; Crosby 1994, pp. 48-50, on background; Keynes 1997, p. 255, spurious version of S 1113.
A.D. 1061 x 1065. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Bishop Giso for the maintenance of his canons at St Andrew's, Wells, land at Wedmore, Somerset, and the bishop is to draw up a privilegium concerning this. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Wells
MS: Wells, Liber Albus I, 17v (s. xiii; both versions)
Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., pp. 161-2; K 837; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 287 (no. 6); Earle, p. 341; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 45; Harmer, Writs, no. 68 (p. 281), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 273-4, 489, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 539, authentic; Keynes 1988, p. 203, 216 n. 183; Dumville 1992, p. 41 n. 56, cited with reference to estate history; Crosby 1994, pp. 48-50, on background; Abrams 1996, p. 92, on Wedmore; Keynes 1997, pp. 229-30, 256, on background.
A.D. 1061 x 1065. Writ of King Edward declaring that Alfred has sold to Bishop Giso his land at Litton, Somerset. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Wells
MSS: Wells, D. & C., Liber Albus I, 14rv (s. xiii; both versions)
Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., pp. 136, 160; K 839; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 286 (no. 3); Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 47; Harmer, Writs, no. 69 (pp. 282-3), with translation.
Translated: Douglas and Greenaway, EHD II, no. 31 (p. 460).
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 274, 489-90, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 540, authentic; Crosby 1994, pp. 48-50, on background; Keynes 1997, pp. 239, 256, on background.
A.D. 1042 x 1044. Writ of King Edward declaring that the burh at Wennington, Essex, with the 4 hides belonging to it and the church and land æt thære lea, is to belong to Westminster Abbey as fully and completely as ever Ætsere Swearte and his wife Ælfgyth owned them and gave them to the abbey with his consent. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. Lost
2. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 108r (s. xiii)
Printed: Madox 1702, p. 36 (no. 60) ex MS 1; K 870 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 299 (no. 21) ex MS 2; Neufeldt 1907, no. 15; Harmer, Writs, no. 73 (p. 340) ex Madox, with translation.
Comments: Madox 1792, p. 36 n., refers to a red wax seal, three inches wide; Harmer, Writs, pp. 301, 492-4, probably not fully authentic in present form, may be of late 11th-century date; Hart, ECE, no. 50, authentic basis, the land æt thære lea may lie in Aveley, Essex, the adjacent parish; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, dubious; Harvey 1977, p. 344.
Writ of King Edward declaring that the land at Kelvedon Hatch, Essex, is to belong to Westminster Abbey as fully and as completely as ever Æthelric the chamberlain and his wife Gode owned it and bequeathed it to the abbey with his consent, English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 107rv (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 269r (s. xiv; incomplete)
Printed: K 869 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 299 (no. 19) ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 13 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 74 (p. 341) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: PN Essex, pp. 58-9; Harmer, Writs, pp. 301-3, 494-5, probably spurious; Hart, ECE, no. 51, spurious; Brooks and Keir 1975, p. 369, dubious; Harvey 1977, p. 343.
A.D. 1042 x 1044. Writ of King Edward declaring that the monks of Westminster are to have the land and wharf which Ulf the portreeve and his wife Cynegyth gave to Westminster Abbey, as fully and completely as ever the donors possessed it. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 111rv (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 506rv (s. xiv)
Printed: K 872 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 300 (no. 30) ex MS 1; Thorpe, p. 361 ex MS 2; Neufeldt 1907, no. 24; ; Harmer, Writs, no. 75 (p. 342) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 307-8, 495, perhaps a poor copy of an authentic writ, may have been reworked at Westminster; Brooke and Keir 1975, pp. 193, 369, probably authentic, p. 371, on Ulf; Gelling, ECTV, no. 237, probably authentic.
Writ of King Edward declaring that the estate of Lessness, Kent, which Ætsere owned and bequeathed to Westminster Abbey for the monks' food is now to belong to the abbey. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. XI (s. xii; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 9)
2. BL Add. 4558, 138r (s. xviii)
3. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 105v-106r (s. xiii)
4. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 647r (s. xiv)
Printed: Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 298 (no. 14); Birch 1874, pp. 142-3 ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 8 ex MS 1; ; Harmer, Writs, no. 76 (p. 343) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp, 299-301, 495-6, probably a fabrication, very imperfect seal of reddish-white wax, attached upside-down sur simple queue, wrapping-tie; Bishop and Chaplais, p. xxii n., forgery; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, dubious; BA Facs., p. 11.
A.D. 1044 x 1051. Writ of King Edward declaring that the monks of Westminster Abbey are to have the land at Chalkhill, Middx., given by Thurstan, his housecarl. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Ch. vii. 6 (s. xii; BM Facs., iv. 34)
2. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 108v-109r (s. xiii)
3. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 114v (s. xiv)
4. BL Lansdowne 860, 304r (s. xvi; copy of lost seal, with few clauses of text)
Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., pp. 158-9 ex MS 1, with Latin version; K 843 ex MS 1, with Hickes's Latin version; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 299 (no. 23) ex MS 2; Neufeldt 1907, no. 17; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 49, Latin version ex K; Harmer, Writs, no. 77 (p. 344) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., pp. 158-9, describes a seal, now lost, attached by silken tie; PN Middx, p. 62; Harmer, Writs, pp. 308-9, 496-9, possibly an authentic writ, enlarged and embellished; Finberg 1972, p. 491 n. 4, doubtful; Brooke and Keir 1975, pp. 193-4, 369, 371; Gelling, ECTV, no. 240, citing Harmer, may be genuine with later additions; Nightingale 1987, p. 565; Lawson 1993, p. 163 n. 10.
A.D. 1045 x 1049. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Westminster Abbey the land at Aldenham, Herts., as fully and completely as Earl Sihtric held it of the monastery and committed it to Abbot Ælfric and the community, and as Abbot Ordbriht held it for the monastery in the days of King Offa and King Cenwulf, and as King Edgar in his charter confirmed it to the abbey. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 106rv (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 185v-186r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 827 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 298 (no. 15) ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 9 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 78 (p. 345) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 313-15, 499-501, probably forged in connection with a dispute which arose soon after the Conquest; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, dubious; Gelling, ECTV, no. 181, spurious; Keynes 1994/1, p. 65, on Earl Sihtric; Pelteret 1995, pp. 313-14, on meaning of thiowlice; cf. S 124, 774.
A.D. 1049. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Westminster Abbey the estates of Datchworth and Watton-at-Stone, Herts., as fully and completely as Ælfwynn the nun held them of the monastery and committed them to Abbot Edwin and the monks, and as King Edgar granted them to the monastery, and as they were adjudged in (the assembly of) the nine shires at Wendlebury (? Wandlebury, Cambs.). English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 107r (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 227r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 826 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 298 (no. 17) ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 79 (p. 346) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 315-16, 501-4, authenticity doubtful, may be interpolated, must belong to 1049; Hart, ECEE, no. 73, authentic, suggests that Wendlebury is Wandlebury near Cambridge; Gelling, ECTV, no. 182, citing Harmer, may be interpolated, Wendelbury in Oxon. is equally likely; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, status uncertain; Harvey 1977, p. 346; Kennedy 1985, p. 185, on shire-meeting, agrees with Wandlebury identification; Wormald 1988, no. 87; Kennedy 1995, p. 143 n. 50.
A.D. 1047 x 1065. Writ of King Edward declaring that he intends to have legal possession of the land at Ickworth, Suffolk (which he possesses for Westminster Abbey), and that it is to be transferred to him as soon as the present writ is read. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Sloane Ch. xxxiv. 1 (s. xii; BM Facs., iv. 35, with erroneous refernece to Cotton Ch. xxiv.1)
2. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 109r (s. xiii)
3. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Book 11, 648r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 873 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 299 (no. 24) ex MS 2; Birch 1874, p. 140, inaccurately ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 18 ex MS 2; Harmer, Writs, no. 80 (p. 347) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 316-18, 504-5, a forgery based on a probably authentic writ of the Confessor, manipulated so as to support the claim of Westminster Abbey to the estate; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, p. xxii n. 1, forged; Hart, ECEE, no. 113A, spurious; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, forgery; Chaplais 1962, on Westminster forger 9= 1981, XVIII); BA Facs., p. 11.
A.D. 1049 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Abbot Edwin judicial and financial rights as fully and completely as he himself possessed them. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. XVIII (s. xi med.; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 17; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, pl. 23a)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 46r (s. xiv)
Printed: Widmore 1743, Appendix 1 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 81 (p. 348)ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 318, 505, script seems to belong to later 11th century, probably a slightly later copy of an original writ; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, no decisive argument against textual authenticity, handwriting of MS 1 later than apparent date of issue; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, probably authentic; Gelling, ECTV, no. 248, slightly later copy of original writ.
A.D. 1042 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to St Peter of Westminster on all his land judicial and financial rights as fully and completely as ever he himself possessed them English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. XIX (s. xi med. or xi2; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 16)
2. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 110rv (s. xiii)
3. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 46r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 889 (with S 1125) ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 300 (no. 28) ex MS 2; Birch 1874, p. 143 ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 22 ex MSS 1, 2; Harmer, Writs, no. 82 (pp. 348-9) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 318-19, 505-6, authenticity uncertain; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, dubious; Gelling, ECTV, no. 249, citing Harmer, probably genuine.
A.D. 1042 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to St Peter of Westminster judicial and financial rights as fully and as completely as he himself possessed them. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 111v (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 46r (s. xiv)
Printed: Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 300 (no. 31) ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 26; Harmer, Writs, no. 83 (p. 349) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 318-19, 506, possibly copy of authentic writ, if S 1126 is accepted there is no reason for rejecting S 1127; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, probably authentic; Gelling, ECTV, no. 250, citing Harmer, probably authentic.
A.D. 1052 x 1053. Writ of King Edward declaring that the estate at Moulsham, Essex, which Leofcild owned and bequeathed to Westminster Abbey, is now to belong to the abbey just as he granted it. English.
Archive: Westminster
MS: BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 107v-108r (s. xiii)
Printed: K 859; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 299 (no. 20); Neufeldt 1907, no. 14; Harmer, Writs, no. 84 (p. 350), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 299, 506-7, dubious, possibly based on an authentic writ; Hart, ECE, no. 65, authentic basis; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, probably authentic; Harvey 1977, p. 343; Wormald 1995, p. 128 n., may have been tampered with.
A.D. 1053 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that the monks of Westminster are to have the estate of Eversley, Hants. Four free sokemen who hold the estate are henceforth to be subject to Westminster Abbey. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 105rv (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 647v (s. xiv)
Printed: K 845 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 298 (no. 13) ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 7 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 85 (pp. 351-2) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 309-10, 507-9, probably represents an authentic writ, altered and expanded; Finberg, ECW, no. 174, authentic basis; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, perhaps expanded; Harvey 1977, p. 345.
A.D. 1051 x 1066, probably 1057 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Westminster Abbey the land at Shepperton, Middx, as fully and completely as St Dunstan bought it and granted it by charter to the abbey (cf. S 1293). English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 108rv (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 154v (s. xiv)
Printed: K 858 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl, (rev. edn), i. 299 (no. 22) ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 16 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 86 (p. 353) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: PN Middx, p. 17; Harmer, Writs, pp. 319-20, 509, dubious; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, authenticity uncertain, p. 371, on sheriff; Harvey 1977, p. 354; Gelling, ECTV, no. 246, citing Harmer, authenticity uncertain, reference to Dunstan perhaps an addition; cf. S 1131.
A.D. 1049 x 1066, probably 1057 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Teinfrith, his 'churchwright', the land at Shepperton, Middx, with judicial and financial rights and exemptions. English.
Archive: Westminster
MS: London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 154v (s. xiv)
Printed: Harmer 1936, p. 102; Harmer, Writs, no. 87 (p. 353), with translation.
Translated: Loyn 1984, p. 114.
Comments: Harmer 1936, authentic; Harmer, Writs, pp. 319-20, 509-10, authentic; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 372, on sheriff; Gelling, ECTV, no. 247, citing Harmer, authentic; cf. S 1130.
A.D. 1051 x 1066, probably 1057 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that with his full permission Ailric has granted the land at Greenford, Middx, to Westminster Abbey in accordance with the agreement that the brethren and he have made. English.
Archive: Westminster
MS: BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 105r (s. xiii)
Printed: Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 298 (no.11); K 860; Neufeldt 1907, no. 5; Harmer, Writs, no. 88 (p. 354), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 320-1, 510, probably authentic; Chaplais 1966/1, pp. 170-1, cited and quoted (= 1973, p. 55); Gelling, ECTV, no. 251, authentic; cf. S 1133.
A.D. 1051 x 1066, perhaps 1057 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that with his full permission Ailric has granted land at Greenford, Middx, to Westminster Abbey in accordance with the agreement that the brethren and he have made; and he grants them judicial and financial rights. English.
Archive: Westminster
MS: London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 129v (s. xiv)
Printed: Harmer, Writs, no. 89 (pp. 354-5), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 320-2, 510, probably spurious, interpolated version of S 1132; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, dubious; Harvey 1977, p. 351; Gelling, ECTV, no. 252, spurious.
A.D. 1053 x 1066, probably 1057 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that Leofsi Duddessunu has given land at Wormley, Herts., to Westminster Abbey with his permission. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 81 (s. xii; BM Facs., iv. 40)
2. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 107r (s. xiii)
3. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 647r (s. xiv)
Printed: Madox 1702, p. 1 (no. 1) ex MS 1; K 866 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 297 (no. 18) ex MS 2; Neufeldt 1907, no. 12 ex MSS 1, 2; Hall 1908, p. 52; Harmer, Writs, no. 90 (p. 355) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 322-3, 511, probably copy of authentic writ; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, p. xxii, n. 1, forgery; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, probably spurious copy of basically genuine writ; Gelling, ECTV, no. 188, citing Bishop and Chaplais, spurious but transaction may have an authentic basis; BA Facs., p. 11.
A.D. 1053 x 1066, probably 1057 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that the monks of Westminster are to have the estate at Ayot (St Lawrence), Herts., given by Ælfwine Gottone and his wife. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 106v-107r (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 226v (s. xiv)
Printed: K 864 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 298 (no. 16) ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 1 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 91 (p. 356) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 310-11, 511-12, dubious, may represent an 'improved' version of an authentic writ; Gelling, ECTV, no. 189, spurious.
A.D. 1057 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that the monks of Westminster Abbey are to have the land at Tooting, Surrey, given by Swegen his kinsman. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 105r (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 505r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 846 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 298 (no. 12) ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 6 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 92 ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 311-13, 512, authenticity doubtful; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, dubious; Gelling, ECTV, no. 347, citing Harmer, no conclusive evidence against authenticity.
A.D. 1058 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that the piece of land at Claygate, Surrey, given by Earl Tostig and his wife Leofrun, the king's foster-mother, is to belong to Westminster Abbey. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. XVII (s. xii; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 15)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 465rv (s. xiv)
Printed: Birch 1874, pp. 141-2; Harmer, Writs, no. 93 (p. 358) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 303-6, 512-14, spurious; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, pp. xxi (no. v), xxii, n. 1, forged; Chaplais 1962, on Westminster forger (= 1981, XVIII); Finberg 1972, p. 491 n. 4, spurious; Harvey 1977, p. 358; Gelling, ECTV, no. 349, spurious, but place-name spellings suggest that the forger used Old English sources; BA Facs., p. 11.
A.D. 1053 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given Rutland to Westminster Abbey and Queen Edith is to have it for her lifetime. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M., XIV (s. xii; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 13)
2. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 109rv (s. xiii)
3. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 594r (s. xiv)
Printed: Widmore 1751, Appendix no. 1; K 863 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 299 (no. 25) ex MS 2; Birch 1874, p. 142 ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 19 ex MSS 1, 2; Harmer, Writs, no. 94 (p. 359)ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 323-4, 514-15, slightly modernised version of authentic writ; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, p. xxi (no. iv), p. xxii n. 1, forged; Lennard 1959, pp. 169-70, cited; Hart, ECEE, no. 162, authentic; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, 12th-century forgery; Harvey 1977, p. 357; BA Facs., p. 11; Meyer 1993, pp. 88-9.
A.D. 1065 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given land at Launton, Oxon., to Westminster Abbey. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 103v-104r (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 275r (s, xiv)
Printed: K 865 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 297 (no. 8) ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 2 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 95 (no. 360) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 324, 515, authentic; PN Oxon., i. 228; Harvey 1977, p. 356; Gelling, ECTV, no. 302, authentic; Blair 1994, pp. 106, 195 n. 76, on addressee and date.
A.D. 1062 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Westminster Abbey the land at Perton, Staffs., as fully and completely as he himslef held it. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. XII (s. xi; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 12; Barlow 1970, pl. 5, opp. p. 104; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, pl. 23 b)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, XIII (s. xii; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 11)
3. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 109v (s. xiii)
4. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 648r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 842 ex MS 3; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 300 (no. 26) ex MS 3; Birch 1874, pp. 146-7 ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 20 a, b, ex MSS 1, 2, 3; Harmer, Writs, no. 96 (pp. 360-1) ex MS 1, with translation.
Translated: Brown 1984, p. 132 (no. 159).
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 324-6, 516, MS 1 probably an original writ; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, p. xxii n. 1, MS 2, forged, scribe of MS 1 perhaps associated with Westminster scriptorium; Chaplais 1966/1, pp. 169-70, on protocol (= 1973, p. 54); Hart, ECNE, no. 97, original; Harvey 1977, p. 357; Keynes 1988, p. 215, queries suggested Westminster affiliation of scribe of MS 1.
A.D. 1042 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Westminster Abbey, Windsor, Berks., and Staines, Middx. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Ch. vii. 13 (s. xii; BM Facs., iv. 36)
2. BL Cotton Faust. A. ii, 104v (s. xiii)
3. London, College of Arms, Young 72, 13v (s. xv)
4. London, Westminster Abbey, Munment Bk 1, 12r (s. xiv)
5. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 133r (s. xiv)
Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 141 ex MS 1; K 886 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 298 (no. 10) ex MS 2; Thorpe, p. 414 ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 4; Harmer, Writs, no. 97 (p. 361) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 141, describes seal, no longer extant; Wanley, Catalogus, p. 265, suspect; Harmer, Writs, pp. 327-8, 516-17, late-11th-century copy of authentic writ; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, p. xxii n. 1, forged; Stenton 1971, p. 497, cited; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, probably spurious copy of basically genuine writ; Harvey 1977, pp. 338, 354; Gelling, ECTV, no. 137, following Harmer, late copy of authentic writ; BA Facs., p. 11.
A.D. 1053 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that the monks of Westminster Abbey are to have the estate of Staines, Middx, with the land in London called Stæningahaga and the soke of 35 hides, with berewicks. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. XVI (s. xii; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 10)
2. BL Cotton Add. 4558, 155-6 (s. xviii)
3. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 104rv (s. xiii)
4. London, College of Arms, Young 72, 13v (s. xv)
5. London, Westminster Abbey, Munment Bk 1, 12rv (s. xiv)
6. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 133r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 855 ex MS 3; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 297 (no. 9) ex MS 3; Earle, p. 302 ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 3 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 98 (p. 362) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Maitland 1897, p. 181, associates Stæningahaga with Staining Lane and church of St Mary, Staining; PN Middx, pp. 1, 18; Harmer, Writs, pp. 313, 328-30, 517-19, may represent an authentic writ altered and expanded, MS 1 late 11th-century; Ekwall 1954, pp. 123-4; ; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 368, possibly based on authentic writ; Harvey 1977, p. 354; Gelling, ECTV, no. 255, citing Harmer, possibly based on an authentic writ; Dyson and Schofield 1984, pp. 306-7).
A.D. 1042 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Westminster Abbey, Pershore, Worcs., and Deerhurst, Gloucs. English.
Archive: Westminster
MS: London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 316r (s. xiv)
Printed: Harmer 1936, pp. 102-3 (no. 3); Harmer, Writs, no. 99 (p. 364), with translation.
Comments: Harmer 1936, authentic; Harmer, Writs, pp. 330, 519-20, probably modernised version of authentic writ; Finberg, ECWM, no. 168 (pp. 71, 130), citing Harmer, authentic; Harvey 1977, pp. 345, 363; Keynes 1980, p. 144, on transaction; Hooke 1990, p. 339; Wormald 1993, p. 18, cited.
A.D. 1042 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Westminster Abbey, Pershore, Worcs., and Deerhurst, Gloucs., and commands that all the thegns of the lands be henceforth subject to the abbot and monks. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 112r (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 278r (s. xiv)
3. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M., 12752 (s. xv)
Printed: K 830 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 300 (no. 33) ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 27 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 100 (pp. 364-5) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 330-1, 520, probably spurious, some imitation of Anglo-Saxon script in MS 2; Finberg, ECWM, no. 181 (pp. 78, 132), spurious; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, dubious.
A.D. 1042 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Westminster Abbey, Pershore, Worcs., and Deerhurst, Gloucs., and invokes a blessing on every man who shall be loyal to the holy monastery. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. XV (s. xii; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 14)
2. BL Add. 4558, 139r (s. xviii)
3. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 278r (s. xiv)
Printed: Birch 1874, p. 147; Harmer, Writs, no. 101 (pp. 365-6) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 331-2, 520-1, may be altered and enlarged version of an original writ; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, pp. xxi, p. xxiii, forged; Finberg, ECWM, no. 182 (pp. 78, 132), possibly a copy of S 1143, enlarged and altered at Westminster; Hooke 1990, p. 340.
A.D. 1062 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that the monks of Westminster Abbey are to have the estates of Pershore, Worcs., and Deerhurst, Gloucs., with all the land and berewicks which he has granted to the abbey. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 109v-110r (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 278r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 829 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 300 (no. 27) ex MS 1; Earle, p. 340 ex K; Neufeldt 1907, no. 21 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 102 (pp. 366-7) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 313, 328-30, 521, possibly based on an authentic writ, but enlarged and embellished at Westminster; Finberg, ECWM, no. 179 (pp. 78, 132), citing Harmer, spurious but possibly based on authentic text; Hooke 1990, p. 341; Wormald 1993, p. 18, cited.
A.D. 1065 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Westminster Abbey, Islip and land at Marston, Oxon. English.
Archive: Westminster
MS: London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 270r (s. xiv)
Printed: Harmer 1936, p. 102 (no. 2); Harmer, Writs, no. 103 (p. 368), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 334-6, 521-2, authenticity uncertain; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, uncertain authenticity; Harvey 1977, p. 356; Gelling, ECTV, no. 303, authentic.
A.D. 1065 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Westminster Abbey the estate at Islip where he was born and a half hide at Marston, Oxon. He directs his kinsman Wigod of Wallingford to transfer the land to the abbey on his behalf. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 103rv (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 270r (s. xiv)
3. Bodleian, James 24, p. 54 (s. xvii; incomplete)
Printed: Kennet 1818, i. 68; K 862 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 297 (no. 7) ex MS 1; Thorpe, p. 368; Neufeldt 1907, no. 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 104 (pp. 368-9) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 336-7, 522-3, mixture of authentic and spurious material, no reason to doubt instruction to Wigod, some imitation of Anglo-Saxon script in MS 2; PN Oxon., i. 181, 221; Barlow 1970, p. 29 n. 2, some unsatisfactory features, but probably has an authentic basis; PN Berks., ii. 535; Harvey 1977, p. 356; Gelling, ECTV, no. 304, citing Harmer, interpolated; Blair 1994, pp. 110, 196 n. 97.
A.D. 1051 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring to the authorities of London that he has granted to St Peter of Westminster full freedom upon all the lands belonging to the abbey with judicial and financial rights as fully and completely as he himself possessed them. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 110v-111r (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 96r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 861 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 300 (no. 29) ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 23 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 105 (p. 370) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 332-4, 523, very dubious but probably contains authentic material; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 372, on port-reeve; Gelling, ECTV, no. 254, spurious.
A.D. 1065 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to St Peter of Westminster at the dedication of the church full freedom upon all the lands belonging to the abbey with judicial and financial rights as fully and completely as he himself possessed them. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 111v-112r (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 96r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 857; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 300 (no. 32); Harmer, Writs, no. 106 (pp. 371-2) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 332-4, 523, dubious but probably contains authentic material; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 372, on port-reeve; Gelling, ECTV, no. 256, spurious.
A.D. 1042 x 1047. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Bishop Ælfwine the bishopric of Winchester as fully and completely as ever King Cnut granted it to him, that is, with judicial and financial rights. English.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 29436, 10r (s. xiii)
Printed: Galbraith 1920, p. 385 (no. 1); Harmer, Writs, no. 109 (p. 397), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 381-2, 525, possibly authentic in substance; Finberg, ECW, no. 160, authentic, S 1152 seems to be enlarged and doubtful version of same writ.
A.D. 1042 x 1047. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Bishop Ælfwine the bishopric of Winchester as fully and completely as ever King Cnut granted it to him, and grants to Old Minster and to the bishop judicial and financial rights. English.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MSS: 1. BL Add. 29436, 10rv (s. xiii)
2. PRO Ch.R. 10 Edw. II, no. 7
3. PRO Ch.R. 9 Edw. III, no. 40
4. PRO Ch.R. 4 Ric. II, no. 10
5. PRO Ch.R. 1 Hen. IV. pt 2, no. 9
6. PRO Ch.R. 2 Hen. V, pt 1, m. 39
7. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI, pt 2, m. 11
8. PRO Pat. R. 2 Edw. IV. pt 6, m. 6
9. PRO Pat. R. 2 Edw. IV, pt 6, m. 12
10. PRO Conf. R. 20, no. 13 (s. xv)
11. PRO Conf. R. 20, no. 18 (s. xv)
12. PRO Conf. R. 34, no. 2 (s. xvi)
13. PRO Conf. R. 35, m. 3 (s. xvi)
14. PRO DL 10/291 (s. xiv)
15. PRO E 32/267, m. 24 (s. xiv)
16. Bodleian, Dodsworth 24, 107v-108r (s. xvii)
Printed: Cal. Ch. R., iii. 347 ex MS 2; Harmer, Writs, no. 110 (p. 398) ex MS 1.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 381-2, 525, probably an enlarged and improved version of S 1151; Finberg, ECW, p. 64, enlarged and doubtfully authentic version of S 1151.
A.D. 1052 x 1053. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has confirmed his mother's bequest to the monks of Old Minster of a messuage (haga) called Ælfrices Godebegeaton in Winchester, which she held by the gift of King Æthelred (cf. S 925), and of 10 hides on Hayling Island, Hants. English.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MSS: 1. BL Add. 29436, 10v (s. xiii)
2. PRO Ch.R. 10 Edw. II, no. 7
3. PRO Ch.R. 9 Edw. III, no. 40
4. PRO Ch.R. 4 Ric. II, no. 10
5. PRO Ch.R. 1 Hen. IV. pt 2, no. 9
6. PRO Ch.R. 2 Hen. V, pt 1, m. 39
7. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI, pt 2, m. 11
8. PRO Pat. R. 2 Edw. IV. pt 6, m. 9
9. PRO Conf. R. 20, no. 13 (s. xv)
10. PRO Conf. R. 20, no. 18 (s. xv)
11. PRO Conf. R. 34, no. 2 (s. xvi)
12. PRO Conf. R. 35, m. 3 (s. xvi)
13. PRO DL 10/291 (s. xiv)
14. PRO E 32/267, m. 24 (s. xiv)
15. Bodleian, Dodsworth 24, 107rv (s. xvii)
16. Winchester, D. & C., 'St Swithun's Cartulary', pt 1, 6v, no. 31 (s. xiii)
Printed: Goodman 1923, pp. 6-7; Goodman, Winchester Cart., p. 14 (no. 31) ex MS 16; Harmer, Writs, no. 111 (p. 399) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 382-5, 526, apparently authentic except for the final clause relating to Hayling; Finberg, ECW, no. 169, authentic basis; Biddle et al. 1976, p. 237, on haga; Kennedy 1995, p. 151 n. 86, on immunity; Wormald 1995, p. 129 n., has been tampered with; Wormald 1996, p. 123, on immunity; cf. S 1476.
A.D. 1053 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has bequeathed Portland, Dorset, and everything belonging thereto to the Old Minster at Winchester. English.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 7r (s. xii ex)
Printed: K 891; Harmer, Writs, no. 112 (p. 400), with translation.
Comments: Stevenson 1896, p. 732 n.; Harmer 1938, pp. 341-2, 351-3; Harmer, Writs, pp. 385-7, 526, many questionable features; Finberg, ECW, no. 629, spurious; Hart 1970/1, p. 24 (no. 6), spurious, late insertion in MS; Keynes 1980, p. 143 n. 209, dubious.
Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted privileges to his priests at Wolverhampton. English.
Archive: Wolverhampton
MSS: 1. BL Harley Ch. 43. D. 29 (s. xiv)
2. BL Harley Ch. 43. E. 51 (s. xv)
3. PRO Ch.R. 2 Edw. III, no. 67
4. PRO Pat. R. 2 Ric. II, pt 2, m. 19
5. PRO Pat. R. 2 Ric. II, pt 2, m. 4
Printed: Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi. 1446; Harmer, Writs, no. 114 (p. 407) ex MS 1, with translation.
Translated: Bridgeman 1916, pp. 125-6.
Comments: Bridgeman 1916, p. 126; Harmer, Writs, pp. 403-6, 527, cannot be authentic in present form and may be entire fabrication; Hart, ECNE, no. 95, spurious.
A.D. 1062. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to the monk Wulfstan the bishopric of Worcester. English.
Archive: Worcester
MS: BL Add. Ch. 19802 (s. xi med.; BM Facs., iv. 41; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, pl. 26)
Printed: Harmer, Writs, no. 115 (pp. 410-11), with translation; Councils and Synods, no. 83 (pp. 560-1), with translation.
Translated: Brown 1984, p. 132 (no. 160).
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 407-9, 528, authentic; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, authentic; Finberg, ECWM, no. 363, original; Keynes 1988, pp. 215, 216 n. 183; Councils and Synods, p. 560; Hooke 1990, p. 337, cited; Crosby 1994, p. 235; Keynes 1997, p. 240 n.
Probably A.D. 1062. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to the monk Ælfstan judicial and financial rights over his land and over his men. English.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. PRO Ch.R. 6 Edw. II, no. 27
2. PRO Ch.R. 3 Edw. III, no. 23
3. PRO Ch.R. 9 Edw. II, no. 49
4. PRO Ch.R. 14 Ric. II, no. 10
5. PRO Ch.R. 15-17 Ric. II, no. 2
6. PRO Pat. R. 10 Edw. I, m. 10
7. PRO Pat. R. 1 Ric. II, pt 4, m. 3
8. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. IV, pt 1, m. 17
9. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen, IV, pt 1, m. 23
10. PRO Pat. R. 1 Edw. IV, pt 6, m. 23
11. PRO Pat. R. 4 Edw. IV, pt 3, m. 3
12. PRO Conf. R. 15, no. 15 (s. xv)
13. PRO Conf. R. 37, no. 6 (s. xvi)
14. Worcester, D. & C., B. 1600 (s. xiv; ex 1)
Printed: Cal. Pat. R. 1281-92, p. 26; Cal. Ch. R., iii. 206; Harmer, Writs, no. 116 (p. 411) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 409, 528, slightly modernized copy of an authentic writ; Finberg, ECWM, no. 364, authentic; Davies 1972, p. 477 n. 166, cited; Loyn 1984, pp. 114-15; Keynes 1988, p. 216 n. 183; Hooke 1990, p. 337, cited; Crosby 1994, p. 235; Wormald 1996, p. 124.
Probably A.D. 1062. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Bishop Wulfstan for St Mary's minster the third part of the seamtoll and of the ceaptoll as fully and as completely as he has (? had) the other thing. English.
Archive: Worcester
MS: Worcester, Worcestershire R.O., B. A. 3814 (ref. 821), 38v (s. xiii/xiv)
Printed: Harmer, Writs, no. 117 (p. 412), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 409-10, 528-9, authentic, some linguistic modernisation, one formula has probably been altered; Finberg, ECWM, no. 365, authentic; Hooke 1990, p. 338, cited.
A.D. 1060 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he had granted to Archbishop Ealdred judicial and financial rights over his lands and all his men. English.
Archive: York
MSS: 1. York, D. & C., Mag. Reg. Alb., pt 1, 61v (s xiv)
2. York, D. & C., Mag. Reg. Alb., pt 1, 62v (s. xiv)
Printed: K 893; Farrer, EYC, i. 29 (no. 10); Harmer, Writs, no. 118 (p. 418) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 412-13, 529, slightly modernised copy of authentic writ; Finberg, ECWM, no. 177 (pp. 77, 132), authentic; Hart, ECNE, no. 136, authentic; Keynes 1986, p. 86, cited; Hooke 1990, pp. 340-1, cited; Keynes 1997, p. 240 n.
A.D. 1060 x 1065. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Archbishop Ealdred judicial and financial rights over his men within the king's own soke as fully and as completely as the archbishop has them in his own lands. Latin.
Archive: York
MSS: 1. <BL Add. 61901, 70r>
2. BL Harley 560, 23r (s, xvi/xvii)
Printed: Farrer, EYC, i. 29 (no. 11); Harmer, Writs, no. 119 (p. 418) ex MS 2.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 413-14, 529, probably authentic; Hart, ECNE, no. 118 (pp. 113, 130), authentic; Keynes 1986, p. 86, cited.
A.D. 1060 x 1066. Writ of King Edward announcing that he has granted to Ealdred, the 'deacon' of Archbishop Ealdred, the minster at Axminster, Devon, as a pious benefaction for St Peter's minster at York. English.
Archive: York
MS: York, D. & C., Mag. Reg. Alb., pt 1, 61v (s. xiv)
Printed: Harmer, Writs, no. 120 (p. 419), with translation; Councils and Synods, no. 82 (p. 559).
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 415-18, 529-31, authentic; Councils and Synods, pp. 557-9; Hooke 1994, p. 189, cited.
A.D. 1060 x 1061. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to his clerks at Bromfield, Salop., judicial and financial rights over their lands. English.
Archive: Hereford
MS: Hereford, Dioc. Reg., Registrum Ricardi de Swinfield, 152r (s. xiv)
Printed: Capes 1908, p. 2; Capes 1909, p. 425; Moir 1947; Harmer, 1959, pp. 101-2.
Comments: Harmer 1959, pp. 90-8, authentic; Finberg, ECWM, no. 433, authentic.
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