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  S9 A.D. 686 (June). Eadric, king of Kent, to St Peter's Minster (St Augustine's), Canterbury; grant of 3 sulungs (aratra) near Stodmarsh, Kent. Canterbury, St Augustine's

  • 1. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, ff. 52v-53r (s. xv in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 131r (s. xiii med.)
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  S16 A.D. 696 or 711 (March). Wihtred, king of Kent, and his wife Æthelburh to St Peter's Minster (St Augustine's), Canterbury; grant of 5 sulungs (aratra) at Littlebourne, Kent. Canterbury, St Augustine's

  • 1. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, ff. 61v-62r (s. xv in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, ff. 85v-86r (s. xiii med.)
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  S17 A.D. 696 (Berkamystede, Feb.). Wihtred, king of Kent, to Mildrith, abbess; grant of privileges for Minster-in-Thanet. Canterbury, St Augustine's (ex Minster-in-Thanet)

  • 1. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, f. 61v (s. xv in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 86r (s. xiii med.; narrative version)
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  S18 A.D. 697 (April). Wihtred, king of Kent, to Abbess Æbba; grant of 40 hides (manentes) at Hæg. Canterbury, St Augustine's (ex Minster-in-Thanet)

  • 1. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, f. 62r (s. xv in.)
  • 2. London, Public Record Office, E 164/27, f. 79r (s. xiii)
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  S24 A.D. 741 (Lyminge). Æthelberht II, king of Kent, to the church of St Mary, Lyminge; grant of fishing rights in the river Limen, land around the oratorium of St Martin (? at New Romney), and pasture at Biscopes wic (The Wicks, Broomhill, Kent). Canterbury, Christ Church (ex Lyminge)

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 101 (s. viii; BM Facs., i. 8; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 192; Ward 1952, plate 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Stowe 853, ff. 3v-4r (s. xvii)
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  S26 A.D. 727 (14 October). Eadberht I, king of Kent, to Abbess Mildrith (of Minster-in-Thanet) and her familia; grant of a half-sulung (aratrum) of land bi Northanwde. Canterbury, St Augustine's (ex Minster-in-Thanet)

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 86r-v (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, Public Record Office, E 164/27, f. 79r-v (s. xiii)
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  S28 A.D. 762 or 763 (Canterbury, 25 July). Eadberht II, king of Kent, to St Peter's Minster (St Augustine's), Canterbury; grant of 6 sulungs (aratra) at Mongeham, Kent, with rights in woodland at Singledge, Kent. Canterbury, St Augustine's

  • 1. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, ff. 67v-68r (s. xv in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 133r-v (s. xiii med.)
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  S32 A.D. 762. Sigered, king of Kent, to Eardwulf, bishop, to augment his monastery; grant of 1.5 iugera in the northern part of the city of Rochester. Rochester

  • 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 122r-123r (s. xii 1; facsimile)
  • 2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 4r-v (s. xiv)
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  S37 A.D. 765 x 785. Egbert, king of Kent, to Deora, bishop of Rochester, and the church of St Andrew; grant of 10 sulungs (aratra) at Halling, Kent, with appurtenant swine-pastures at Bixle, Speldhurst, Mæreden, Rusthall and Teppanhyse, Kent. Rochester

  • 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 127v-129r (s. xii 1)
  • 2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 3r (s. xiv)
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  S39 A.D. 805. Cuthred, king of Kent, to Aldberht, his minister, and Selethryth, abbess; grant of 2 sulungs (aratra) at Ruckinge, Kent. Canterbury, Christ Church (ex Lyminge)

  • 1. Lost original
  • 2. London, British Library, Stowe 853, f. 11r-v (s. xvii; ex 1)
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  S43 A.D. 775 for c. 705 x c. 717. Nunna, king of Sussex, to Eadberht, bishop; grant of 20 hides (tributarii) at Hugabeorgum and Dene (probably East and West Dean near Chichester, Sussex). Selsey

  • 1. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Cap. I/17/1 (s. x/xi; BA Facs. 23)
  • 2. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/2, f. 17v (s. xiv)
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  S50 c. A.D. 765. Ealdwulf, king, to Hunlaf, his comes: grant, in order to found a minster, of 16 hides (casata) at Stanmer, Lindfield and Burleigh, Sussex, with confirmation by Offa, king of Mercia. Canterbury, Christ Church (? ex Selsey)

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 33182, f. 8v (s. xvi; ex 2)
  • 2. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, p. 382 (s. xiii)
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  S53 (A.D. 693.) Oshere, king of the Hwicce, to Cuthswith, abbess; grant of 15 hides (tributarii) at Penintanham (probably Inkberrow, Worcs.) and Dyllawidu (?), for the foundation of a minster. Worcester

  • 1. Lost original
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 4660, f. 3v (s. xvii; ex 1)
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  S55 A.D. 757. Eanberht, Uhtred and Ealdred, under-kings of the Hwicce, to Milred, bishop, and St Peter's, Worcester; grant of 30 hides (cassati) at Tredington, Warwicks. (formerly Worcs.), previously held by Tyrdda, comes. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 183v (s. xi)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 16r-17v (s. xi 1)
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  S56 A.D. 759 (February). Eanberht, Uhtred and Ealdred, brothers and under-kings of the Hwicce, with the permission of Offa, king of Mercia, to Headda, abbot; grant of 10 hides (cassati) at Andoversford, Gloucs. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. Ch. 19789 (s. viii; BM Facs., ii. 2; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 179; Making of England, p. 202 (no. 156); Pal. Soc., ser. i, 10)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 24v (s. xi 1)
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  S59 A.D. 770. Uhtred, regulus of the Hwicce, with the permission of Offa, king of Mercia, to Æthelmund, his faithful minister; grant, for three lives, of 5 hides (tributarii) at (Aston in Stoke Prior, Worcs.), with reversion to the church of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. Worcester, DC., Add. MSS (in the safe) (s. viii 2; OS Facs., ii. Worcester Charter; Ch.L.A., iv, no. 274; Birch 1880; Turner 1916, plates 31, 32; Brown 1996, p. 208, fig. 25)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 129r (s. xvii)
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  S77 A.D. 691 x 699. Æthelred, king of Mercia, to Oftfor, bishop, and St Peter's Church, Worcester; grant of 30 hides (cassati) at Henbury and Aust, Gloucs. Worcester

  • 1. Lost original
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 4660, f. 3r (s. xvii; ex 1)
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  S86 A.D. 716/17 for ? c. 733 (29 October). Æthelbald, king of Mercia, to Mildrith, abbess, and her familia in Minster-in-Thanet; remission of the toll due on one ship at London. Canterbury, St Augustine's (ex Minster-in-Thanet)

  • 1. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, ff. 64v-65r (s. xv in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 131v (s. xiii med.)
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  S87 A.D. 737 for ? 716/17 (29 October). Æthelbald, king of Mercia, to Mildrith, abbess, and her church; remission of the toll due on one ship. Canterbury, St Augustine's (ex Minster-in-Thanet)

  • 1. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, ff. 65v-66r (s. xv in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, ff. 131v-132r (s. xiii med.)
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  S93 A.D. 726 x 737. Æthelbald, king, to St Mary's Minster, Abingdon; confirmation of lands and grant of 27 hides (cassati) at Watchfield and 10 by Ginge Brook, Berks., with further confirmation by Æthelheard, king (of Wessex). Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 13r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 106r-v (s. xii 2)
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  S99 A.D. 743 for 737 x 740 (Bearuwe). Æthelbald, king of Mercia, to Osred, his faithful minister; grant of 20 hides (cassati) at Aston Blank and Notgrove, Gloucs., with note that the land was later granted to St Mary's, Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. Lost original
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 26v-27r (s. xi 1)
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  S103b A.D. 716 x 745. Æthelbald, king of Mercia, to Ingwald, bishop of London; grant of the toll on one ship. London, St Paul's

  • 1. London, Lincoln's Inn, Hale 84, ff. 93v-94r (s. xvii)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, James 23 (S.C. 3860), p. 35 (s. xvii)
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  S105 A.D. 764 (Canterbury). Offa, king of Mercia, to Eardwulf, bishop of Rochester; grant of 20 sulungs (aratra) at Islingham, Kent. Rochester

  • 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 123v-125r (s. xii 1; facsimile)
  • 2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 6v (s. xiv)
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  S107 A.D. 765 (2 Feb.). Offa, king of Mercia, to Milred, bishop of the Hwicce; grant of 10 hides (manentia) at Pyrton, Oxon. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 28r-v (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 175r-v (s. xi 2)
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  S118 A.D. 780 (Brentford, Middx, 22 Sept.). Offa, king of Mercia, to the bishopric of Worcester; grant of 7 hides (manentes) at Cropthorne, 1 at Netherton, 2 at Elmley Castle, 1 at Kersoe in Elmley Castle, 14 at Charlton, 15 at Hampton and 10 at Bengeworth, Worcs. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 44v-45v (s. xi 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, ff. 144r-145r (s. xi 2)
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  S121 A.D. 781 = 780 (Tamworth, Staffs., 26 Dec.). Offa, king of Mercia, to the church of St Mary, Worcester; grant of 8 hides (cassati) at Icomb, Gloucs., in exchange for land at Sapey, Worcs. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, ff. 184v-185r (s. xi 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 198r-v (s. xi 2)
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  S122 A.D. 784. Offa. king of Mercia, to Esme (Esne), comes and præfectus; grant, to him and his male heirs, of 3 hides (tributarii) at Evenlode, with reversion to the church at Evesham. Evesham

  • 1. Lost ex John Smith, Acton Burnell, Salop
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dugdale 17 (S.C. 6507), p. 60 (s. xvii)
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  S129 A.D. 788. Offa, king of Mercia, to St Andrew's church, and the bishopric of Rochester; grant of 6 sulungs (aratra) at Trottiscliffe, Kent, with swine-pastures in the Weald. Rochester

  • 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 131r-132r (s. xii 1)
  • 2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), ff. 4v-5r (s. xiv)
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  S130 A.D. 789. Offa, king of Mercia, to Wærmund, bishop, and the church at Rochester; grant of 1 sulung (aratrum) at Bromhey in Frindsbury, Kent. Rochester

  • 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 132r-133r (s. xii 1; facsimile)
  • 2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 5v (s. xiv)
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  S134 A.D. 792 (Clofesho). Offa, king of Mercia, to the churches of Kent; confirmation and grant of privileges. Canterbury, St Augustine's

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, ff. 105v-106r (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, Public Record Office, E 164/27, f. 25r-v (s. xiii)
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  S135 A.D. 793. Offa, king of Mercia, to Crowland Abbey; grant of privileges. Crowland

  • 1. London, British Library, Arundel 178, ff. 30v-31r (s. xvi)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 207 c, ff. 99v-100r (s. xvii)
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  S144 A.D. 757 x 796 (Freoricburna, Surrey). Offa, king of Mercia, to the church at Woking, Surrey; grant of 20 hides (manentes) at Woking. Peterborough

  • 1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, ff. 37v-38r (s. xii med.)
  • 2. Peterborough, DC., 1, f. 130v (s. xiii med.)
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  S145 A.D. 777. Offa, king of the English, to St Mary's minster, Worcester; grant of 5 hides (manentes) at Doughton in Tetbury, Gloucs., and 5 at Eisey in Latton, Wilts. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 42r-v (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, ff. 170v-171r (s. xi 2)
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  S148 A.D. 796 (Bath, Somerset). Ecgfrith, king of Mercia, to Æthelmund, his princeps; grant of 3 hides (cassati) at Huntena tun. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 181v (s. xi)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 52r (s. xi 1)
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  S152 A.D. 797 (Glastonbury). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Cynehelm and his successors; confirmation of the freedom of Glastonbury Abbey, previously granted by King Ecgfrith. Glastonbury

  • 1. Cambridge, Trinity College, R.5.33 (724), ff. 1-19v, ff. 10v-11r (s. xiii)
  • 2. Oxford, Queen's College, 368, p. 47 (s. xvii)
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  S153 A.D. 798. (a) Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Oswulf, his dux and minister; grant of land at Hremping wiic, also known as Hafingseota, south of the river Limen, Kent, in exchange for land at Bobingseata. (b) Oswulf grants the land to Lyminge minster. Canterbury, Christ Church (ex Lyminge)

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 97 (s. viii 2; BM Facs., i. 12; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 191; Stengel 1960, p. 64)
  • 2. London, British Library, Stowe 853, ff. 8v-9v (s. xvii)
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  S157 A.D. 801. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, and Cuthred, king of Kent, to Swithhun, minister; grant of 3 sulungs (aratra) at Bromhey in Frindsbury, Kent, one sulung at Æthilwlfing lond, a fishery on the Thames called Fiscnæs, and swine-pastures in Cæstersæta walda, with confirmation by Cuthred (2nd day of Easter, Canterbury) and note of bequest of the land by Swithhun to St Andrew's, Rochester. Rochester

  • 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 135v-136v (s. xii 1)
  • 2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), ff. 8v-9r (s. xiv)
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  S159 A.D. 804. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, and Cuthred, king of Kent, to [Eanberht], their kinsman; grant of 20 sulungs (aratra) at West Lenham, Kent, with thirteen swine-pastures in the Weald. Canterbury, St Augustine's

  • 1. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, f. 73r-v (s. xv in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 93v (s. xiii med.)
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  S161 A.D. 805 (Acleah). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, and Cuthred, king of Kent, to Wulfhard, priest; grant of 2 hides (manentes), equivalent to one sulung, at Swarling, Kent, and one 'yokelet' (an geocled) at Ecgheanng lond. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, British Library, Stowe Charters 9 (s. ix 1; OS Facs., iii. 9; Making of England, p. 213 [no. 167])
  • 2. London, British Library, Stowe 853, ff. 9v-11r (s. xvii)
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  S163 A.D. 808 (Tamworth, Staffs., Easter Day, 16 April). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Eadwulf, minister; grant of 1.5 sulungs (aratra) at Cooling, Kent. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 98 (s. ix 1; BM Facs., ii. 9)
  • 2. London, British Library, Stowe 853, f. 13r-v (s. xvii)
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  S173 A.D. 814. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Swithnoth, his comes; grant of 1 sulung (aratrum) near Chart Sutton, Kent, with swine-pastures. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Harley Charter 83 A 1 (s. ix 1; BM Facs., ii. 14)
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 4660, f. 21r-v (s. xvii)
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  S176 A.D. 814. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of 30 iugera at Bingley's Island, Canterbury. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. Lost original (s. xvii)
  • 2. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, pp. 404-405 (s. xiii)
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  S177 A.D. 814 (Bearwe, 25 November). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of one sulung (aratrum) at Cynincges cua lond, Kent (? Kingsland (lost) in Faversham hundred), in return for 7 pounds of gold and silver. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 74 (s. ix 1; BM Facs., ii. 13; Brown 1986, pl. II; Making of England, p. 215 [no. 169])
  • 2. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, pp. 403-404 (s. xiii)
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  S183 A.D. 821. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Abingdon Abbey; grant of privileges for land at Culham, Oxon.; Kennington, Hinksey, Cumnor, Earmundelæh (cf. Bessels Leigh), Eaton, Sunningwell, Dry Sandford, Wootton, Ginge, Denchworth, Charney (Bassett), Goosey, Fernham, Watchfield, Shrivenham, Bourton, Leckhampstead, Boxford, Welford and Wickham in Welford, Berks., with woodland at Speen, Poughley (in Chaddleworth), Trindlæh (lost), and Easton (in Welford), Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 9v-10r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 107r-v (s. xii 2)
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  S185 A.D. 798 x 821, probably 814. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Deneberht, bishop, and his familia at Worcester; grant of the reversion of 30 hides (tributarii) at Fladbury, Worcs., after his own death. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 46204, verso (s. xi)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 11r (s. xi 1)
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  S196 A.D. 841 = 840 (Cropthorne, Worcs., with confirmation at Tamworth, Staffs., 25 Dec.). Berhtwulf, king of Mercia, to Heahberht, bishop; grant of 10 hides (manentes) at Wychwood, Oxon., in return for 31 mancuses. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 32v (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 175r (s. xi 2)
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  S197 A.D. 844 for 848 (Repton, Derbys.). Berhtwulf, king of Mercia, to Abbot Eanmund and his familia in the minster at Breedon-on-the-Hill, Leics.; grant of privileges, in return for a gift of 180 mancuses in gold and 15 hides (manentes) at Stanlege (? Stanley, Derbys.) and at Bellanford (? Belford, Northants.) to the king and also the donation of a precious vessel to Humberht, princeps. Peterborough (ex Breedon-on-the-Hill, Leics.)

  • 1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, ff. 42v-44v (s. xii med.)
  • 2. Peterborough, DC., 1, ff. 131v-132v (s. xiii med.)
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  S206 A.D. 855 (Oswaldesdun). Burgred, king of Mercia, to Alhhun, bishop, and his familia at Worcester; grant of privileges for 10 hides (manentes) at Ablington by the River Coln, Gloucs.; for 8 hides (cassati) at Poulton, Wilts.; for 6 hides (cassati) at Barnsley, Gloucs.; for 5 hides (manentes) at Eisey, Wilts.; and for 3 hides (manentes) at Bentley, Worcs.; in return for two bradiolae weighing 45 (or 48) mancuses. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 39r-40r (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, ff. 194v-195r (s. xi 2)
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  S207 A.D. 855 (Tamworth, Staffs.). Burgred, king of Mercia, to Alhhun (or Alhwine), bishop of Worcester; grant of privileges for the minster at Blockley, Gloucs., in return for 300 silver shillings. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 183r-v (s. xi)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 14v-15v (s. xi 1)
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  S209 A.D. 862 (Wellesbourne, Warwicks.). Burgred, king of Mercia, to the church of St Peter, Gloucester; confirmation of privileges. Gloucester

  • 1. Gloucester, D.C., Reg. A, ff. 9v-10r (s. xiv ex.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Charters, Gloucester b.1 (s. xiv/xv; OS Facs., ii. Bodleian)
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  S217 A.D. 880 for 887. Æthelred, dux et patricius of Mercia, to the bishopric of Worcester; grant of 6 hides (mansiones) at Brightwell Baldwin and 8 at Watlington, Oxon., to pertain to the church at Readanoran (i.e. Pyrton, Oxon). With a list, in English, of six serfs formerly belonging to the royal vill at Bensington, Oxon. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 28v-29v (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, ff. 195r-196r (s. xi 2)
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  S220 A.D. 888 (Droitwich, Worcs.). Æthelred, procurator of Mercia, to Wulfgar, minister; grant of 15 hides (manentes) at Walden, Herts. St Albans

  • 1. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), f. 162v (s. xvii)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Nero D. I, ff. 149-61, f. 151r-v (s. xiii)
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  S223 A.D. 884 x 901. Æthelred, ealdorman, and Æthelflæd, to the church of St Peter, Worcester; grant of rights at Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 1v-2r (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian A. V, ff. 148-94, f. 148v (s. xvi)
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  S237 A.D. 682. Centwine, king of the (West) Saxons, to Hæmgils, abbot of Glastonbury; grant of 23 hides (mansiones) near Quantock Wood and 3 hides (cassati) at Crycbeorh (probably Creechbarrow Hill, near Taunton), Somerset. Glastonbury

  • 1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, Muniments, 10586, pp. 128-129 (s. xvi in.)
  • 2. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 8 (see Abrams 1996, p. 31)
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  S239 A.D. 687 (5 July). Ine, King of Wessex, to Hean, abbot; grant of 15 hides (cassati) at Bradfield, 15 at Bestlesforda (near Basildon), 25 at Streatley and 80 at Æaromundeslee, all in Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 105v (s. xii 2)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 10 (S.C. 4152), p. 11v (s. xvii; ex 1)
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  S254 A.D. 737. Æthelheard, king, to the church of SS Peter and Paul, Winchester; grant of 4 hides (mansae) at Withiel Florey, Somerset, and 3 at Cearn (probably Charmouth, Dorset), in augmentation of Queen Frithugyth's gift of land at Taunton. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 60v-61r (s. xii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 28r (s. xii med.; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S266 A.D. '761' altered to '781'. Æthelberht, king of Wessex and Kent, to Deora, bishop of Rochester; grant of land at Rochester. Rochester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters vi. 4 (BM Facs., iv. 5)
  • 2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 130v-131r (s. xii 1; facsimile)
• Metadata

  S270 A.D. 773 for 833. Egbert, king of Kent, to Dunn, abbot, and the church of St Mary's (Lyminge); grant of 150 iugera at Sandtun (Sampton, lost, in West Hythe, Kent). Canterbury, Christ Church (ex Lyminge)

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 102 (s. xi; BM Facs., i. 16)
  • 2. London, British Library, Stowe 853, ff. 5r-6r (s. xvii)
• Metadata

  S278 A.D. 835 (Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxon.). Egbert, king of Wessex, to Abingdon Abbey; grant of 50 hides (manentes) at Marcham, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 11v-12v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 107v (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S279 A.D. 836. Egbert, king of the West Saxons, to Ciaba, a clericus living in St Peter's minster (St Augustine's), Canterbury; grant, for life, of one sulung (aratrum) on Scirdun, formerly belonging to the royal vill at Canterbury, in return for 100 mancuses, with reversion to St Augustine's. Canterbury, St Augustine's

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 132r-v (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, Public Record Office, E 164/27, f. 81r-v (s. xiii)
• Metadata

  S294a A.D. 814 or 855 for 844 (Winchester, 5 Nov.). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the Church; general grant of lands and privileges ('First Decimation'). Malmesbury and Crowland

  • 1. London, British Library, Arundel 178, f. 35r-v (s. xvi)
  • 2. London, British Library, Royal 13 D II, f. 28r-v (s. xii)
• Metadata

  S297 A.D. 845 (Wye, Kent, 16 Nov.). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex and Kent, to Wynhere, abbot of St Augustine's; grant of 1 sulung (aratrum) at Lillicesora (? Lynsore, near Bossingham, Kent), in return for 70 mancuses. Canterbury, St Augustine's

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 106r-v (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, Public Record Office, E 164/27, ff. 83v-84r (s. xiii)
• Metadata

  S302 A.D. 854 (Wilton, Wilts., 22 April). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the Church; general grant of land and privileges ('Second Decimation'). Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 12v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, ff. 107v-108r (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S311 A.D. 854 (Wilton, Wilts., 22 April). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the church of SS Peter and Paul, Winchester; grant of 133 hides (manentes) at Taunton and 10 at Brown, Somerset. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 59r-v (s. xii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 27v-28r (s. xii med.; English version of bounds)
• Metadata

  S312 A.D. 854. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the church of SS Peter and Paul, Winchester; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Wanborough (i.e Little Hinton), Wilts. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. Winchester, DC., Library Showcase (s. xv 1; OS Facs., ii, Winchester 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 85v-86r (s. xii med.)
• Metadata

  S313 A.D. 854. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to St Peter and the Old Minster, Winchester; grant of 20 hides at Wanborough, Wilts. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. Edinburgh, University Library, Laing ch. 18 (s. xi; BA Facs. 24)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 86r-v (s. xii med.)
• Metadata

  S315 A.D. 855. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex and Kent, to Dunn, his minister; grant of a messuage (haga) in the south of the city of Rochester. Rochester

  • 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 139v-140r (s. xii 1; facsimile)
  • 2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 9r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S321 A.D. 880. Æthelwulf, king of the Saxons, to the church of St Andrew (Rochester) and bishop Swithulf; grant of 3 sulungs (aratra) at Cuxton, with meadow at Chatham, Kent. Rochester

  • 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 141v-142v (s. xii 1)
  • 2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 4v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S323 c. A.D. 833 x 839, perhaps 833 x 836. Æthelwulf, king of Kent, to (Christ Church, Canterbury); confirmation of lands at Langham, Blakeburneham, Plegwingham, Ofneham; pasture in Hliossole and Ægelbertinherst; common in woods in Estcogheringdenne and Hyringdenne; land at Canterbury with meadows at Shettinge and Thanington, Kent. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. A, ff. 140v-141r (s. xiii)
  • 2. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. E, f. 42r-v (s. xiii ex.)
• Metadata

  S338 A.D. 867 (Canterbury). Æthelred, king of Wessex and Kent, to Wighelm, presbyter; grant of a seat in the church of St Martin, with land appurtenant. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 95 (s. ix 2; BM Facs., ii. 37)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, James 24 (S.C. 3861), p. 100 (s. xvii; extract; lacks bounds)
• Metadata

  S347 A.D. 891 (2 Aug.). Alfred, king of the Anglo-Saxons, to Berhtwulf, his faithful comes; grant of 12 hides (manentes) at Plush in Buckland Newton, Dorset, and 2 (? for 5) at Raddington, Somerset, in exchange for land at Sutton Poyntz, Dorset. Glastonbury

  • 1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 199r (s. xiv med.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 228r-v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S349 A.D. 895. Alfred, king of the Saxons, to Burhric, bishop of Rochester; grant of land at Freckenham, Suffolk, and at Isleham, Cambs. Rochester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 19 (s. xiii; BA Facs. 41)
  • 2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 10r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S352 A.D. 979 probably for 878 (19 Oct.). Alfred, king, to Denewulf, bishop; grant of 8 hides (manentes) at Ruishton, Somerset. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 27v (s. xii med.; bounds only)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 52v-53r (s. xii med.)
• Metadata

  S357 A.D. 871x877. Alfred, king, to the church of Shaftesbury; grant of privileges and of land at Donhead (St Andrew and St Mary), Wilts.; Compton Abbas, Sixpenny Handley, Gussage (St Andrew), Tarrant Hinton, Iwerne Minster and Fontmell Magna, Dorset. Shaftesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Harley 61, ff. 21v-22r (s. xv in.; English)
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 61, f. 22r (s. xv in.; Latin)
• Metadata

  S365 A.D. 901. King Edward (to New Minster, Winchester); grant of 15 hides (mansae) at Abbotts Ann, Hants. Winchester, New Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Lansdowne 717, ff. 34r-35r (s. xvi; ex 2; Latin and ME bounds only)
  • 2. Shirburn Castle, Earl of Macclesfield, Liber Abbatiae, f. 15r-v (s. xv 1)
• Metadata

  S367a A.D. 903. King Edward, with Æthelred and Æthelflæd of Mercia, at the request of Æthelfrith, dux, renews the charter of a grant by Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Beornnoth, comes, of 10 hides (cassati) at Islington, Middx. London, St Paul's

  • 1. London, Lincoln's Inn, Hale 84, f. 93v (s. xvii)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, James 23 (S.C. 3860), pp. 33-34 (s. xvii; extract only)
• Metadata

  S368 A.D. 903 (Milton, ? Kent or ? Dorset). King Edward to Ordlaf, princeps; renewal of a charter of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, granting 20 hides (cassati) at Stanton St Bernard, Wilts., to Cenwold, minister. Wilton

  • 1. London, British Library, Harley 436, ff. 13v-16r (s. xiii)
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 436, ff. 12r-20v (s. xiii)
• Metadata

  S369 A.D. 903 (Southampton). King Edward to Tata, his fasallus; renewal of a charter of King Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, covering 3 hides (manentes) at Hardwell in Compton Beauchamp, Berks., the earlier landbook having been damaged by immersion. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 17v-18r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 201r (s. xii 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S377 A.D. 909. King Edward to Winchester Cathedral; confirmation of 20 hides (mansae) at Overton, with woodland at Tadley, 15 hides at North Waltham and 5 at Bradley, Hants. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 56r-57r (s. xii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 57r-v (s. xii med.; no bounds)
• Metadata

  S379 A.D. 921 (Wilton, Wilts., 11 Jan.). King Edward to Wulfgar, minister; grant of 10 hides (cassatae) at Collingbourne Kingston, Wilts. Winchester, New Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Lansdowne 717, ff. 36r-37r (s. xvi; ex 2; Latin and ME bounds only)
  • 2. Shirburn Castle, Earl of Macclesfield, Liber Abbatiae, f. 16r-v (s. xv 1)
• Metadata

  S380 A.D. 899 x 909. King Edward to Asser, bishop of Sherborne, and his familia; grant of 6 hides (manentes) at Wellington, 5 at West Buckland and 12 at Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, in exchange for the minster at Plympton, Devon. Wells

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius E. V, f. 124v (s. xvi; incomplete)
  • 2. Wells, DC., Liber Albus II, f. 290r-v (s. xiv/xv)
• Metadata

  S388 A.D. 670 for 924 x 939. King Athelstan to St Petroc's minster; grant of 1 hide (cassatus) at Newton St Petroc, Devon. Exeter

  • 1. Exeter, D.C., 2518 (s. xi; OS Facs., ii, Exeter 3)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 966, f. 70r-v (s. xvii; lacks bounds)
• Metadata

  S389 A.D. 670 for 924 x 939. King Athelstan to the minster of St Mary, Exeter; grant of 6 perticae at Stoke Canon, Devon. Exeter

  • 1. Exeter, D.C., 2517 (s. xi; OS Facs., ii, Exeter 1)
  • 2. Exeter, D.C., 1706 (s. xv; Middle English version; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S401 A.D. 929. King Athelstan to the church of St Mary, Worcester; grant of land at Aust, Gloucs., for a fishery. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 53r-54r (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 194r-v (s. xi 2)
• Metadata

  S402 A.D. 929. King Athelstan to the church of St Mary, Worcester; grant of 5 hides (cassati) at Water Eaton, Oxon. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 31r-v (s. xi 1; no bounds)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, ff. 171v-172v (s. xi 2)
• Metadata

  S408 A.D. 931. King Athelstan to the church of St Mary, Abingdon; grant of 15 hides (cassati) at Sandford, Oxon. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 20r-v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, ff. 109v-110r (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S409 A.D. 931. King Athelstan to the church of St Mary, Abingdon; grant of 12 hides (cassati) at Shellingford, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 19r-v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 109v (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S410 A.D. 931. King Athelstan to the church of St Mary, Abingdon; grant of 5 hides (cassati) at Swinford, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 19v-20r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 110r (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S413 A.D. 931 (Worthy, Hants., 20 June). King Athelstan to Ælfric, minister; grant of 20 hides (cassati) at Watchfield, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 21r-22r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 201r (s. xii 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S416 A.D. 931 (Lifton, Devon, 12 November). King Athelstan to Wulfgar, minister; grant of 9 hides (cassatae) at Ham, Wilts. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 16 (s. x 1; BM Facs., iii. 3)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 81v-83r (s. xii med.)
• Metadata

  S418 A.D. 932 (Amesbury, Wilts., 24 December). King Athelstan to Alfred, minster; grant of 12 hides (cassatae) at North Stoneham, Hants. Winchester, New Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Domitian A. XIV, ff. 115r-116r (s. xiii 2; no bounds)
  • 2. Shirburn Castle, Earl of Macclesfield, Liber Abbatiae, ff. 18v-19v (s. xv 1)
• Metadata

  S426 A.D. 934 (Buckingham, 13 Sept.). King Athelstan to Æthelhelm, his faithful minister; grant of 15 hides (cassatae) at Kingtone (? Kington St Michael, Wilts.). Glastonbury

  • 1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 203r (s. xiv med.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 235r-v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S427 A.D. 934 (Frome, Somerset, 16 Dec.). King Athelstan to the familia of Holy Trinity, Winchester; grant of 30 hides (cassatae) at Enford, Wilts.; 10 (mansae) at Chilbolton and 10 (cassati) at Ashmanworth, Hants. Latin version has English bounds of Enford, Hants. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 94r-95r (s. xii med.; Latin)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 95r-v (s. xii med.; English)
• Metadata

  S428 A.D. 930 for 934 (London, 7 June). King Athelstan to St Mary's, Worcester; grant of 5 hides (manentes) at Werstfelda, 5 (cassati) at Cofton Hackett, 5 at Rednal in Kings Norton, 2 at Wast Hills and Hopwood in Alvechurch, all in Worcs.; and 3 at Wihtlafesfeld. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 182r (s. xi; last part only)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 4v-6r (s. xi 1)
• Metadata

  S436 A.D. 937 (Dorchester, Dorset, 21 Dec.). King Athelstan to the familia of Malmesbury; grant of 10 hides (cassati) at Wootton, 60 at Bremhill, 5 at Sumerford (? Little Somerford), and 5 at Norton, Wilts.; and 5 at Ewen, Gloucs. Malmesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Royal 13 D II, ff. 34v-35r (s. xii; part only)
  • 2. Oxford, Magdalen College, 172, ff. 93v-94r (s. xii)
• Metadata

  S437 A.D. 937. King Athelstan to Sigulf; grant of 5 hides (manentes) at Water Newton, Hunts. Thorney

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Add. 3020, f. 16v (s. xiv)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 5937, ff. 131-33v, f. 180r (s. xvi; abbreviated)
• Metadata

  S443 A.D. 938. King Athelstan to Frithestan, bishop of Winchester; confirmation of privileges and of a grant to Taunton of 4 hides (mansae) at Withiel Florey, Somerset, and 3 at Cearn (? Charmouth, Dorset). Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 17 (s. xi; BM Facs., iii. 6)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 22v-23v (s. xii med.)
• Metadata

  S444 A.D. 938. King Athelstan to Old Minster, Winchester; grant of 25 hides (mansae) at Tichborne and 5 at Beauworth, Hants., to remain forever under episcopal control. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 62v (s. xii med.)
  • 2. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 12 Edw. II, no. 48
• Metadata

  S449 A.D. 939. King Athelstan to Wulfswith, ancilla Dei; grant of 15 hides (mansae) at East Overton, Wilts. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 22 (s. x med.; BM Facs., iii. 8)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 118r (s. xii med.)
• Metadata

  S457 Rhyming English version of S 456. Ripon

  • London, Public Record Office, DL 41/6/1 (s. xiii; Fowler 1881 facing p. 90)
  • Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 160 (S.C. 5101), f. 250r (s. xvii)
• Metadata

  S466 A.D. 940. King Edmund to Dunstan, his faithful abbot; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Christian Malford, Wilts. Glastonbury

  • 1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 205v (s. xiv med.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 239r-v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S469 A.D. 940. King Edmund to Ordwold, minister; renewal of lost landbook for 10 hides (mansae) at Wylye, Wilts., held by Ordwold's father, Ordlaf. With a note, in English, of appurtenances, including a messuage (haga) in Wilton. Wilton

  • 1. London, British Library, Harley 436, ff. 4v-7v (s. xiii)
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 436, ff. 7v-11r (s. xiii)
• Metadata

  S478 A.D. 941. King Edmund to Eadric, his vassallus; grant of 2 hides (mansae) at Beechingstoke, Wilts. Shaftesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Harley 61, ff. 4v-6r (s. xv in.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 38 (S.C. 4180), ff. 4r-5v (s. xvii; ex 1; no bounds)
• Metadata

  S485 A.D. 942. King Edmund to Wynflæd, a nun; restoration and confirmation of 7 hides (mansae) at Cheselbourne, Dorset, and grant of a further 8 hides there; with note, in English, of grant to Wynflæd of land in Winterbourne Tomson, Dorset. Shaftesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Harley 61, ff. 7r-8r (s. xv in.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 38 (S.C. 4180), ff. 6v-7v (s. xvii)
• Metadata

  S491 A.D. 943. King Edmund to Eadric, minister; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Leckhampstead, and a mill on the river Lambourn, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 28r-29r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 201r (s. xii 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S494 A.D. 944. King Edmund to Ælfheah, minister; grant of 6 hides (mansae) at Lyford, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 29r-v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 200r (s. xii 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S495 A.D. 944. King Edmund to Ælfric, bishop (of Ramsbury); grant of 30 hides (mansae) at Badby, Dodford and Everdon, Northants. Evesham

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 63 (s. x med.; BM Facs., iii. 11)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XXIV, ff. 18v-19r (s. xii/xiii; incomplete)
• Metadata

  S497 A.D. 944. King Edmund to Ælfstan, minister; grant of 12 hides (mansae) or sulungs at Ealdingtune (? Monkton) in Thanet, Kent. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, British Library, Stowe Charters 25 (s. x med.; OS Facs., iii. 26)
  • 2. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, pp. 396-397 (s. xiii)
• Metadata

  S498 A.D. 944. King Edmund to Athelstan, his faithful comes; grant of 2 hides (mansae) at Brampford Speke, Devon, in return for 80 mancuses of gold. Glastonbury

  • 1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 181r (s. xiv med.; Rose-Troup 1938, p. 27)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 201r-v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S506 A.D. 945. King Edmund to Alfred, bishop (of Selsey); grant of 4 hides (mansae) at Bracklesham and 2 at Thorney (cf. Thorney Farm in East Wittering) or Earnley, Sussex. Selsey

  • 1. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/2, f. 19r (s. xiv)
  • 2. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/6, ff. 74v-75r (s. xiii med.)
• Metadata

  S514 A.D. 942 x 946. King Edmund to Burhric, bishop (of Rochester); grant of 3 sulungs (aratra) at West Malling, Kent. Rochester

  • 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 143r-144r (s. xii 1; facsimile)
  • 2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 5r-v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S518 A.D. 946. King Eadred to Heresige, his man; grant of 1.5 hides (mansae) at Swalecliffe, Kent, with grant of the same by Heresige to the church of SS Peter and Paul (St Augustine's, Canterbury). Canterbury, St Augustine's

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius D. X, ff. 9-319, f. 307r (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 105v (s. xiii med.; incomplete)
• Metadata

  S527 A.D. 947. King Eadred to Edmund, his faithful minister; grant of 3 hides (mansae) at Hankham, Sussex. Wells

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius E. V, ff. 123v-124r (s. xvi; abbreviated)
  • 2. Wells, DC., Liber Albus II, ff. 288v-289r (s. xiv/xv)
• Metadata

  S528 A.D. 947. King Eadred to Oswig, minister; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Merstham, Surrey. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 83 (s. x med.; BM Facs., iii. 13)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, James 24 (S.C. 3861), pp. 73-74 (s. xvii; abbreviated; lacks bounds)
• Metadata

  S529 A.D. 947. King Eadred to Wulfric, miles; grant of 5 hides (mansae) at Denchworth, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 35v-36v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 199r-v (s. xii 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S534 A.D. 948. King Eadred to Ælfthryth, a religious woman; grant of 8 hides (mansae) in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset. Shaftesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Harley 61, ff. 3v-4v (s. xv in.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 38 (S.C. 4180), ff. 3v-4r (s. xvii; ex 1; no bounds)
• Metadata

  S540 A.D. 948. King Eadred to the church of SS Peter and Paul, Winchester; confirmation of 55 hides (mansae) at Downton and 45 at Ebbesborne, Wilts. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 11 (s. xi; BM Facs., iii. 14)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 15v-16r (s. xii med.)
• Metadata

  S550 A.D. 949. King Eadred to Wulfric, miles; grant of 12 hides (cassati) at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucs., with bounds of 20 hides at Bourton, 7 hides at Maugersbury and 7 hides at Daylesford, Gloucs. Evesham

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 6 (s. xvi/xvii; BA Facs., 43)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XXIV (s. xii/xiii; bounds only; with introductory sentence from S 114)
• Metadata

  S553 A.D. 950. King Eadred to Glastonbury Abbey; confirmation of the grant by King Edmund of 15 hides (cassati) at Pucklechurch, Gloucs. Glastonbury

  • 1. Taunton, Somerset Record Office, DD/CC 111489 (s. xi/xii; BA Facs., 32)
  • 2. London, Public Record Office, PRO 31/5/12/18 (s. xix)
• Metadata

  S554 A.D. 951. King Eadred to Ælfheah, his faithful minister; grant of 8 hides (cassati) at Northtune. Burton

  • 1. Lost original
  • 2. Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth 390, ff. 1-184, f. 175v (s. xiii med.)
• Metadata

  S556 A.D. 951. King Eadred to Ælfsige, miles; grant of 5 hides at Haddon, Hunts. Thorney

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Add. 3020, f. 17r-v (s. xiv)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 5937, ff. 131-33v, f. 180r (s. xvi; abbreviated)
• Metadata

  S563 A.D. 955. King Eadred to Ælfgyth, a nun at Wilton; grant of 20 hides (cassati) at (East) Pennard, Somerset, in return for 120 gold solidi. Glastonbury

  • 1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, Muniments, 10565 (s. x med.; OS Facs., ii, Marquess of Bath 2)
  • 2. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 68 (see Abrams 1996, p. 33)
• Metadata

  S570 A.D. 956 for ? 953 x 955. King Eadred to Brihtric, minister; grant of 5 hides (caracti) at Henstridge, Somerset. Shaftesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Harley 61, ff. 6v-7r (s. xv in.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 38 (S.C. 4180), f. 6r-v (s. xvii; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S577 A.D. 958. King Eadred to Wulfric, his faithful minister; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Boxford, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 41r-v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, ff. 197v-198r (s. xii 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S579 A.D. 951 x 955 (or 957 x 959). King Eadred (? for Eadwig or Edgar) to Burhelm, his minister; grant of 6 hides (mansae) at Old Swinford, Worcs. Wells

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius E. V, f. 124r-v (s. xvi; incomplete)
  • 2. Wells, DC., Liber Albus II, ff. 289v-290r (s. xiv/xv)
• Metadata

  S581 A.D. 955 for 956. King Eadwig to Brihtric, his minister; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Hendred, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 48r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 255, f. 61r (s. xvi; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S582 A.D. 955. King Eadwig to the nuns of Wilton; grant of 100 hides (mansiunculae) at Chalke, Wilts. With an English passage added after the witness-list. Wilton

  • 1. London, British Library, Harley 436, f. 81v (s. xiii; with MS 1)
  • 1. London, British Library, Harley 436, ff. 83r-87v (s. xiv; with MS 2)
• Metadata

  S591 A.D. 956 (iv). King Eadwig to Ælfsige, his fidelis; grant of 25 hides (mansae) at Benham, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 52v-53r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 199v (s. xii 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S595 A.D. 956. King Eadwig to Ælfwine, his faithful minister and miles; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Yaxley and 5 at Farcet, Hunts. Thorney

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Add. 3020, ff. 17v-18r (s. xiv)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 5937, ff. 131-33v, f. 180v (s. xvi; abbreviated)
• Metadata

  S602 A.D. 956 (iv). King Eadwig to Æthelnoth, minister; grant of land at Darlaston, near Stone, Staffs. Burton

  • 1. Stafford, William Salt Library, 84/1/41 (s. xi 2; BA Facs. 4; Hart, ECNE, frontispiece; Sawyer, Burton, pl. II, in part)
  • 2. Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth 390, ff. 1-184, f. 176v (s. xiii med.)
• Metadata

  S610 A.D. 956 (iv). King Eadwig to St Peter's Abbey, Bath, and to Wulfgar, abbot; grant of 30 hides (mansae) at Tidenham, Gloucs., of which 3 are to belong to the abbot. Bath

  • 1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 55-131, pp. 57-58 (s. xii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 863, f. 89v (s. xvi)
• Metadata

  S613 A.D. 956 (iv). King Eadwig to Beornric, his faithful minister; grant of 5 hides (cassati) at Poolhampton, Hants. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 40r-v (s. xii med.)
  • 2. London, Society of Antiquaries, 128, f. 204r (s. xvii; English version)
• Metadata

  S620 A.D. 956 (iv). King Eadwig to Eadric, his man; grant of 5 hides (cassati) at Padworth, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 57r-v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 58r-v (s. xiii in.)
• Metadata

  S623 A.D. 956 (iii). King Eadwig to Eadwig, his faithful minister; grant of 8 hides (mansae) at Braunston, Northants. Burton

  • 1. Burton-on-Trent, Burton-on-Trent Museum, Muniments 2 (s. xi; OS Facs., iii, Anglesey 1)
  • 2. Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth 390, ff. 1-184, f. 176r (s. xiii med.)
• Metadata

  S625 A.D. 956. King Eadwig to Elswius, abbot of Glastonbury; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Nettleton, Wilts. Glastonbury

  • 1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 202v (s. xiv med.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 234v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S644 A.D. 957. King Eadwig to Huna; grant of 4 hides (mansae) at Lym. Glastonbury

  • 1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 189r (s. xiv med.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 212v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S645 A.D. 957. (a) King Eadwig to Lyfing, his faithful minister; grant of 9 hides (mansae) at Loceresleage (for Lotheresleage, lost, in Hendon) and at Tunworth (lost, in Kingsbury), Middx. Westminster

  • 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. M. IV (s. xii; OS Facs., ii. Westminster 3; Taylor 1925, plate 26)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 4558, ff. 151r-154r (s. xviii)
• Metadata

  S646 A.D. 957 (Edington, Wilts., 9 May). King Eadwig to Oda, archbishop; grant of 40 hides at Ely, Cambs. probably Ely

  • 1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. a. 2 (S.C. 31346), no. V (s. x med.; BA Facs., 5; Bishop 1957/1, plate 1, part only)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 5819, f. 3r (s. xviii)
• Metadata

  S650 A.D. 958. King Eadwig to Ædwold (Eadwold), his faithful minister; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Drayton, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 61r-v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 199v (s. xii 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S656 A.D. 958. King Eadwig to Wulfgar, his faithful minister; grant of 3 hides (mansae) at Thornton in Marnhull and Iwerne Courtney, Dorset, to be attached to the beneficiary's estate at Hinton St Mary (cf. S 502). Shaftesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Harley 61, f. 6r-v (s. xv in.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 38 (S.C. 4180), ff. 5v-6r (s. xvii; ex 1; bounds omitted)
• Metadata

  S658 A.D. 959 (17 May). King Eadwig to Abingdon Abbey; grant of privileges and confirmation of lands. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 43r-44v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, ff. 112v-113r (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S662a A.D. 955 x 959. King Eadwig to Æthelgeard, his faithful minister; grant of 5 hides (mansae) at Bathingbourne in Godshill, Isle of Wight. Evesham

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XXIV, f. 20r (s. xii/xiii; end erased)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, James 29 (S.C. 3866), p. 41 (s. xvii; incomplete)
• Metadata

  S665 A.D. 955 x 959. King Eadwig to Eadric, his faithful minister; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Leckhampstead, and a mill on the river Lambourn, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 115v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 133v (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S668 A.D. 922 for ? 972. King Edgar to Eadric, his faithful minister; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Winterburnan (Winterbourne Bassett, Wilts.), of which 5 hides lie in the common land. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. Lost original
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 596, ff. 16v-17v (s. xvii; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S670 A.D. 951 for ? 959 (Glastonbury). King Edgar to the church of St Peter, Westminster; restoration of 5 hides (mansiunculae) on the north side of the river Thames between the Tyburn and the Fleet, Middx, in return for 120 solidi of gold in an armlet. Westminster

  • 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. M. V (s. x ex.; OS Facs., ii., Westminster 4)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 75v (s. xvi; incomplete)
• Metadata

  S676a A.D. 958. Edgar, king of Mercia, to Eadwald, his minister; grant of 3 hides (mansiunculae) at Coundon, Warwicks. Coventry

  • 1. Lost original
  • 2. Gloucester, Gloucestershire Record Office, D2026/L10/26 (s. xvi/xvii; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S679 A.D. 958. King Edgar to Oscytel, bishop; grant of 10 hides (cassati) at Sutton, Notts. York

  • 1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 9 (S.C. 4151), f. 3v (s. xvii; no bounds or witnesses)
  • 2. York, DC., Magnum Registrum Album, pt 1, ff. 57v-58r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S681 A.D. 959. King Edgar to Quen, his faithful matrona; grant of land at Howden and Old Drax, Yorks., with dependencies at Howden, Knedlington, Barnhill (Hall, west of Howden), Caville (in Eastrington), Thorpe Lidget, Hive, Eastrington, Belby (in Howden) and Kilpin, all Yorks. Peterborough

  • 1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, ff. 33r-34v (s. xii med.)
  • 2. Peterborough, DC., 1, ff. 128v-129r (s. xiii med.; no bounds)
• Metadata

  S684 A.D. 960. King Edgar to Eanulf, his faithful minister; grant of 9 hides (cassati) at Tywarnhayle in Perranzabuloe and St Agnes, and 2 (mansae) at Bosowsa in Ladock, Cornwall. Exeter

  • 1. Exeter, D.C., 2522 (s. x med.; OS Facs., ii, Exeter 5; Hooke 1994, p. 4)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 966, f. 69r-v (s. xvii; lacks bounds)
• Metadata

  S688 A.D. 961. King Edgar to Abingdon Abbey; grant of 20 hides (cassati) at Burbage, Wilts. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 81v-82r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 120r (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S701 A.D. 962. King Edgar to Abingdon Abbey; grant of a vineyard at Watchet, Somerset, and miscellaneous rights including royal dues at Southampton, at Hwitan Clife, and at Portmanna hythe. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 78v-79r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 119r-v (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S702 A.D. 962. King Edgar to Ælfheah, his kinsman; grant of 10 hides (cassati) at Sunbury, Middx. Westminster

  • 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. M. X (s. x med.; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 6; Tapp 1951, facing p. 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 4558, ff. 147r-150r (s. xviii)
• Metadata

  S705 A.D. 962. King Edgar to Eadwine, his faithful minister; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Moredon in Rodbourne Cheney, Wilts. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 75r-v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 202r (s. xii 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S708 A.D. 963. King Edgar to Abingdon Abbey; grant of 4 hides (cassati) at Easthall (cf. East Hale Bottom, near Eastbourne), Sussex. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 80r-v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 120r-v (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S709 A.D. 963. King Edgar to Ælfric, his faithful minister; grant of 1 hide (mansa), less a half pertica, at Manworthy in Milverton, Somerset. Wells

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius E. V, f. 124r (s. xvi; abbreviated)
  • 2. Wells, DC., Liber Albus II, f. 289r-v (s. xiv/xv)
• Metadata

  S712 A.D. 963. King Edgar to Æsclac; grant of 20 hides (cassati) at Sherburn-in-Elmet, Yorks., with dependencies at Hibaldes tofte, (Monk) Fryston, Hillam, Lumby, (South) Milford, Steeton, Micklefield, Lotherton, Church Fenton, and Cawood, all in Yorks. York

  • 1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 9 (S.C. 4151), ff. 1r-1v (s. xvii; no bounds or witnesses)
  • 2. York, DC., Magnum Registrum Album, pt 1, ff. 56v-57r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S712a A.D. 963. King Edgar to Æthelferth; grant of 5 hides (mansi) at Ballidon, Derbys. uncertain

  • 1. Lost original
  • 2. Stafford, Staffordshire Record Office, Temporary Deposit 1406 (s. xvii; BA Facs., no. 44; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S716 A.D. 963. King Edgar to Gunner, his faithful dux; grant of 30 hides (cassati) at Newbald, Yorks. York

  • 1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 9 (S.C. 4151), f. 2v (s. xvii; incomplete)
  • 2. York, DC., Magnum Registrum Album, pt 1, f. 57r-v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S721 A.D. 963. King Edgar to Wulfhelm, his minister; grant of 2 hides (cassati) at Otheri (apparently Ottery St Mary, Devon). Glastonbury

  • 1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 174v (s. xiv med.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 191v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S732 A.D. 965. King Edgar to Abingdon Abbey; grant of 5 hides (cassati) at Beedon, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 68v-69r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 122r-v (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S733 A.D. 965. King Edgar to Abingdon Abbey; grant of 2 hides (cassati) at Denchworth, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 69r-v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 121v (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S738 A.D. 966. King Edgar to Ælfgifu, his kinswoman; grant of 10 hides (cassatae) at Newnham Murren, Oxon. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Harley Charter 43 C 5, ff. 17v-18v (s. xi; BM Facs., iii. 27)
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 596 (s. xvii)
• Metadata

  S742 A.D. 966. King Edgar to Ethelred (Ælfthryth) his wife; grant of 15 hides (mansae) at Buckland (Newton), Dorset. Glastonbury

  • 1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, ff. 195v-196r (s. xiv med.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 223r-v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S753 A.D. 967. King Edgar to Dunstan, archbishop; grant of 1.5 hides at Cealuadune (Chaldon, Surrey). Half the land had been forfeited by Eadwold for theft. Westminster

  • 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. M. VII (s. x 2; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 8)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 269r (s. xiv; dated 964)
• Metadata

  S761 A.D. 968. King Edgar to Ælfwine, his faithful minister; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Boxford, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 76r-77r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, ff. 122v-123r (s. xii 2; no bounds)
• Metadata

  S764 A.D. 968. King Edgar to Glastonbury Abbey; grant of 30 hides (cassati) at Sturminster Newton, Dorset. Glastonbury

  • 1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 192v (s. xiv med.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 218r-v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S768 A.D. 968. King Edgar to Wulfric, bishop (? of Hereford); grant of 1 hide (mansa) at Stantun (? Stanton by Newhall, Derbys.). Burton

  • 1. Stafford, William Salt Library, 84/2/41 (s. x; BA Facs. 7)
  • 2. Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth 390, ff. 1-184, f. 178r (s. xiii med.; no bounds)
• Metadata

  S772 A.D. 969. King Edgar to Ælfwold, his faithful minister; grant of 15 hides (cassati) at Aspley Guise, Beds. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. Ch. 19793 (s. x 2; BM Facs., iii. 29)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, ff. 129v-130r (s. xvii; abbreviated; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S773 A.D. 969. King Edgar to Ælfwold, his faithful minister; grant of 10 hides (cassati) at Kineton, Warwicks. Worcester

  • 1. Lost Somers charter 15
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX (s. xvii; incomplete; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S776 A.D. 970 (Woolmer, Hants., Easter). King Edgar to Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester; grant of the minster of Ely and of land at Melbourn and Armingford, Cambs., in exchange for land at Harting, Sussex. Ely

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, E.D.R. G/3/28, pp. 63-64 (s. xiii ex.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 5819, f. 2r-v (s. xviii)
• Metadata

  S788 A.D. 972. King Edgar to Worcester Abbey; grant of privileges and confirmation of land at Worcester, vats at Middlewich and Netherwich in Droitwich, furnaces at Witton in Droitwich, and land at Nortun (for Hortun) and at Westwood near Droitwich, all in Worcs. Worcester

  • 1. Lost Somers charter 16
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 131r (s. xvii; incomplete; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S793 A.D. 973. King Edgar to Wulfmær, his minister; grant of 5 hides (mansiunculae) at Burgh' (? Berrow, Somerset). Glastonbury

  • 1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 181r (s. xiv med.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 201v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S794a A.D. 974. King Edgar to Ælfhelm, his minister; grant of 9 hides (mansiunculae) at Brickendon, Herts., comprising 6 at Ælesforda and 3 at Elrices rig. Westminster

  • 1. Lost original
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 4562 (s. xviii; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S800 A.D. 975. King Edgar to Ælfweard, his minister (bishop in rubric); grant of 5 hides (cassati) at Fyfield, Hants. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 83v-84r (s. xii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 118v-119r (s. xiv 1)
• Metadata

  S801 A.D. 975 (? for 974). King Edgar to Æthelwold, bishop; grant of 3 hides (mansae) at Madeley, Staffs. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Harley Charter 43 C 6 (s. xi 1; BM Facs., iii. 31; Turner et al. 1980, pp. 36-7)
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 596, ff. 18v-19v (s. xvii)
• Metadata

  S828 A.D. 956 for 975 x 978. King Edward to Ælfstan, bishop; grant of 13 hides (mansae) at Kingston Bagpuize, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 86r-87r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 202r (s. xii 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S829 A.D. 965 for 975 x 978. King Edward to St Mary's, Abingdon; grant of 7 hides (cassati) at Kingston Bagpuize, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 85v-86r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 123r-v (s. xii 2; no bounds)
• Metadata

  S834 A.D. 979. King Æthelred to Ælfhere, comes; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Olney, Bucks. Peterborough

  • 1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, ff. 34v-35v (s. xii med.)
  • 2. Peterborough, DC., 1, f. 129r-v (s. xiii med.; no bounds)
• Metadata

  S835 A.D. 979. King Æthelred to Æthelwold, bishop, and the church of SS Peter and Paul (Old Minster), Winchester; grant of 5 hides (cassati) at Long Sutton, to be attached to the church's estate at Crondall, Hants. The land, previously subject to Crondall, had been bequeathed to King Edgar by Æthelbriht, oeconomus. The original landbook was lost. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 114r (s. xii med.)
  • 2. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 5 Edw. III, no. 85
• Metadata

  S838 A.D. 981. King Æthelred to St Mary's Abbey, Tavistock, Devon; grant of privileges, including free election of a new abbot. Tavistock

  • 1. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 13 Edw. I, no. 8
  • 2. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 22 Edw. III, no. 38
• Metadata

  S840 A.D. 982. King Æthelred to Leofric; grant of 3 hides (mansae) and 30 iugera at Longstock, Hants. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 67v-68v (s. xii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 68v-69r (s. xii med.; no bounds)
• Metadata

  S843 A.D. 983. King Æthelred to St Mary's, Abingdon; grant of 2 hides (manentes) at Arncott, Oxon. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 90v-91r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 202r-v (s. xii 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S847 A.D. 983. King Æthelred to Æthelmær, his minister; grant of 9 hides (cassati) at Thames Ditton, Surrey. Thorney

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Add. 3020, ff. 15v-16r (s. xiv)
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 258, ff. 137v-138r (s. xvii; incomplete; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S850 A.D. 984. King Æthelred to Shaftesbury Abbey; confirmation of 20 hides (mansae) at Tisbury, Wilts., and woodland at Sfgcnyllebar (? Sedgehill bær). Shaftesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Harley 61, ff. 2v-3v (s. xv in.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 38 (S.C. 4180), ff. 2v-3v (s. xvii; ex 1; bounds omitted)
• Metadata

  S855 A.D. 984. King Æthelred to Brihtric, his minister; grant of 8 hides (mansae) on the river Kennet (at Leverton near Hungerford, Berks.), previously held by Ætheric, rusticus. Abingdon

  • London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 202v (s. xii 2; bounds only)
  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 97r-98r (s. xiii in.)
• Metadata

  S858 A.D. 985. King Æthelred to Leofwine, his minister; grant of 10 hides (cassati) at Wootton, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 98r-v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 201v (s. xii 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S864 A.D. 987. King Æthelred to Æthelsige, his minister; grant of 10 sulungs (aratra) at Bromley, Kent. Rochester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 14 (s. x ex.; BM Facs., iii. 33)
  • 2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 6r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S866 A.D. 987. King Æthelred to Glastonbury Abbey; grant of 40 hides (mansae) at Kyngtune (cf. Kington St Michael and Kington Langley), Wilts., formerly purchased from King Edgar by Ælfswith, wife of Ælfheah, dux, for 40 mancuses of gold. Glastonbury

  • 1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 203r-v (s. xiv med.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 235v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S867 A.D. 987, King Æthelred to Leofwine, his venator; grant of 3 hides (mansae) at Westwood, Wilts., and 3 perticae in the common land at Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 105v-106v (s. xii med.)
  • 2. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 5 Edw. III, no. 85
• Metadata

  S872 A.D. 988. King Æthelred to Leofstan, his minister; grant of 4 hides (mansae) at Colworth in Oving, Sussex, and a messuage (haga) in Chichester. Selsey

  • 1. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/2, f. 20r (s. xiv)
  • 2. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/6, ff. 73v-74r (s. xiii med.)
• Metadata

  S874 A.D. 990. King Æthelred to Æthelweard, his minister; grant of 15 hides (tributaria) at Wootton St Lawrence, Hants., with nine messuages (hagan) in Winchester, a meadow at Basingstoke and a mill at Hines clifæ. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 109r-110r (s. xii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 117r (s. xiv; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S875 A.D. 990. King Æthelred to Sigered, his minister; grant of 2 hides (cassati) at Sibertswold, Kent. Canterbury, St Augustine's

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 104v (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, Public Record Office, E 164/27, ff. 82v-83r (s. xiii)
• Metadata

  S878 A.D. 996. King Æthelred to Wulfric, his minister; grant of 3 hides (cassati) at Abbots Bromley, Staffs. Burton

  • 1. Stafford, William Salt Library, 84/4/41 (s. x ex.; BA Facs., no. 12)
  • 2. Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth 390, ff. 1-184, f. 179r-v (s. xiii med.)
• Metadata

  S879 A.D. 996. King Æthelred to Wulfric, his minister: grant of land at Pillaton, near Penkridge, Staffs. Burton

  • 1. Stafford, William Salt Library, 84/3/41 (s. xi 2; BA Facs., no. 26)
  • 2. Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth 390, ff. 1-184, f. 179r (s. xiii med.)
• Metadata

  S884 A.D. 995. King Æthelred to Muchelney Abbey; confirmation of estates, with particular reference to land at Ilminster, which had been leased out by the abbey and then lost, and land at Camel, Somerset, partly purchased by Abbot Leofric with Æthelred's alms and partly donated by Ealdorman Æthelmær. Muchelney

  • 1. Taunton, Somerset Record Office, DD/SAS PR 502 (s. x ex.; BA Facs., no. 11; Bates, Muchelney Cartulary, frontispiece; Campbell 1982, p. 200; Costen 1992/1, pl. 6)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 56488, ff. 10v-12r (s. xiii 2)
• Metadata

  S895 A.D. 998. King Æthelred to Wulfsige, bishop, and Sherborne Abbey; permission to convert the community to the Benedictine Rule, and confirmation of land at Stockland in Sherborne, Dorset; 9 hides (cassati) at Holcombe Rogus, Devon; 15 at Halstock, 7 at Thornford, 10 at Bradford Abbas, 5 at Oborne, 8 at Stalbridge Weston, 20 in Stalbridge, all in Dorset; 10 at Wulfheardigstoke; 8 at (Nether and Over) Compton, Dorset; 2 in Osanstoke; and 1 hide (mansa) at Lyme, Dorset. Sherborne

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 46487, ff. 3r-4r (s. xii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Otho A. XVIII, f. 132r (s. xii 1; damaged)
• Metadata

  S913 A.D. 1005. King Æthelred to the bishopric of St Davids (Deowiesstow); grant of land at Over in Almondsbury, Gloucs. (with reversion to the church of Worcester after 3 lives, MS 1 only). Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 184v (s. xi)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 118v (s. xi)
• Metadata

  S918 A.D. 1008. King Æthelred to St Mary's, Abingdon; restitution of 20 hides (mansi) at Moredon in Rodbourne Cheney, Wilts., and grant of a prediolum at Cricklade, Wilts. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 92r-93r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 127r (s. xii 2; incomplete)
• Metadata

  S922 A.D. 1009. King Æthelred to Morcar, his minister; grant of 8 hides (manentes) at Weston upon Trent, 1 at Marley, 1 at Smalley and Kidsley, 1 at Crich, and 1 at Ingleby, Derbys. Bounds of Weston. Burton

  • 1. Stafford, William Salt Library, 84/5/41 (s. xi in.; BA Facs., no. 17)
  • 2. Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth 390, ff. 1-184, f. 182v (s. xiii med.; no bounds)
• Metadata

  S926 A.D. 1012. King Æthelred to Godwine, bishop of Rochester; grant of 15 hides (mansae) at Fen Stanton and Hilton, Hunts., previously fofeited by Æthelflæd for helping her exiles brother, Ealdorman Leofsige Rochester

  • 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 159v-161v (s. xii 1)
  • 2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), ff. 6v-7r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S930 A.D. 1012. King Æthelred to Wulfgeat, abbot; grant of 1.5 hides (manses) at Wetmoor, Staffs., in return for 70 pounds of gold and silver. Burton

  • 1. Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth 390, ff. 1-184, f. 183v (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Loan 30, ff. 10v-11r (s. xiii med.)
• Metadata

  S931 A.D. 1013. King Æthelred to Northman, miles; grant of 3.5 hides (cassati) at Twywell, Northants. Thorney

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Add. 3020, f. 15r-v (s. xiv)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 5937, ff. 131-33v, f. 180r (s. xvi; abbreviated; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S932 A.D. 1014. King Æthelred to Leofwine, dux; grant of 4 hides (mansae) at Mathon, Herefords. Pershore

  • 1. London, Public Record Office, E 315/61, f. 57v (s. xiv)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 4509, ff. 97r-98r (ex 1)
• Metadata

  S937 A.D. 990 x 1006, perhaps 999. King Æthelred to St Mary's, Abingdon; grant of land at Farnborough and Wormleighton, Warwicks., and South Cerney, Gloucs. [seized by Ælfric, dux, from a widow, Eadflæd, forfeited by him and restored to Eadflæd, and bequeathed by Eadflæd to King Æthelred]; and at Pyrian (? Wood- or Waterperry, Oxon.) [given to King Æthelred by Æthelweard, son of Ceolflæd], in compensation for the loss of land at Hurstbourne, Hants., and at Bedwyn and Burbage, Wilts. [granted to Abingdon by King Edgar and confiscated by King Edward the Martyr]. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 89v-90v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, ff. 125v-126v (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S938 King Æthelred to Atsere, his faithful minister; grant of land at Wyke Regis, Dorset. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 119r (s. xii med.)
  • 3. Trowbridge, Wiltshire Record Office, 2667/23/29/1-4
• Metadata

  S948 A.D. 1015 x 1016. Edmund Ætheling to Thorney Abbey; grant of 5 hides (mansae) at Lakenheath, Suffolk. Thorney

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Add. 3020, ff. 16v-17r (s. xiv)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 5937, ff. 131-33v, f. 180r (s. xvi; abbreviated)
• Metadata

  S951 A.D. 1018. King Cnut to Burhwold, bishop; confirmation of a grant made by King Edmund (Ironside) of 4 hides (cassatae) at Landrake and at Tinnell in Landulph, Cornwall, in exchange for land at Throwleigh, Devon. The land at Landrake to revert on the bishop's death to St German's. Exeter (ex St Germans)

  • 1. Exeter, D.C., 2524 (s. xi 2; OS Facs., ii, Exeter 9)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 966, ff. 75r-76r (s. xvii; lacks bounds)
• Metadata

  S955 A.D. 1019. King Cnut to Agemund (Agmundr), his minister; grant of 16 hides (cassati) at Cheselbourne, Dorset. Shaftesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Harley 61, ff. 8r-9r (s. xv in.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 38 (S.C. 4180), ff. 7v-8r (s. xvii; no bounds; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S957 A.D. 1020. King Cnut and Ælfgifu (Emma), his wife, to Evesham Abbey; grant of 4 hides (mansae) at Badby and Newnham, Northants. Evesham

  • 1. London, British Library, Harley 3763, f. 65r (s. xii)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Top. Northants c. 23 (S.C. 16640), ff. 5r-6v (s. xviii)
• Metadata

  S965 A.D. 1032. King Cnut to Crowland Abbey; confirmation of privileges and lands, including Crowland itself and the marshes of Alderlound and Goggislound. Crowland

  • 1. London, British Library, Arundel 178, f. 50r (s. xvi)
  • 2. Oxford, Queen's College, 368, pp. 205-207 (s. xvii)
• Metadata

  S967 A.D. 1033. King Cnut to Siward, abbot, and the brethren of Abingdon Abbey; grant of 3 hides (cassati) at Myton, Warwicks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 106r-v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 202v (s. xii 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S969 A.D. 1033. King Cnut to Bovi, his faithful minister; grant of 7 hides (mansae) at Horton, Dorset. Sherborne

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 46487, ff. 24v-25r (s. xii med.; Middle English version of bounds)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 46487, ff. 26r-27v (s. xii med.)
• Metadata

  S977 A.D. 1021 x 1023. King Cnut to Æfic, monk; grant of 5 hides (cassaturae) at Newnham, Northants. Evesham

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 24 (s. xi 1; BM Facs., iv. 16)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XXIV, ff. 20v-21v (s. xii/xiii; partly erased and emended on the basis of S 957)
• Metadata

  S984 A.D. 1020 x 1022. King Cnut to the Abbey of St Benet of Holme; grant of Horning with Ludham and Neatishead, Norfolk. St Benedict of Holme

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Galba E. II, f. 30r (s. xiii ex.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 78 (S.C. 5019), f. 107r (s. xvii; Latin only)
• Metadata

  S986 A.D. 1020. Writ of King Cnut declaring that he has granted to Archbishop Æthelnoth judicial and financial rights over his own men, and over Christ Church, and over as many thegns as the king has granted him to have. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 14907, f. 18r (s. xviii)
  • 2. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1370, f. 114v (s. xi)
• Metadata

  S989 Writ of King Cnut declaring that he has granted to the brethren of St Augustine's judicial and financial rights over their own men, and over all the alodiaries whom he has given to them. Canterbury, St Augustine's

  • 1. Canterbury, D.C., Lit. E 19, f. 94r (s. xiv; incomplete)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius D. X, ff. 9-319, f. 57r (s. xiii 2)
• Metadata

  S993 A.D. 1042 (Sutton Courtenay, Berks.). King Harthacnut to Abingdon Abbey; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Farnborough, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 108v-109v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 130r (s. xii 2; no bounds)
• Metadata

  S1013 A.D. 1046. King Edward to Ælfwine, bishop of Winchester; grant of 6 hides (mansae) at Hoddington, Hants. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters xii. 76
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 114v-115r (s. xii med.)
• Metadata

  S1014 A.D. 1046. King Edward to Athelstan, his faithful minister; grant of 3 hides (cassati) at Ayston, Rutland. Peterborough

  • 1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, ff. 32r-33r (s. xii med.)
  • 2. Peterborough, DC., 1, f. 128r-v (s. xiii med.)
• Metadata

  S1015 A.D. 1046. King Edward to the community of St Ouen, Rouen; grant of land at Mersea, Essex. Rouen, St Ouen

  • 1. Chelmsford, Essex Record Office, D/DCm Z18/1 (s. xv)
  • 2. Rouen, Archives départmentale, Seine inférieure, 14 H 145 (s. xv)
• Metadata

  S1027 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. Exeter

  • 1. Exeter, D.C., 2527 (s. xi 2; OS Facs., ii, Exeter 14)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 966, ff. 74r-75r (s. xvii; lacks bounds)
• Metadata

  S1031 A.D. 1060. King Edward to Westminster Abbey; grant of 10 hides (mansae) in the common land at Wheathampstead, Herts. Westminster

  • 1. Hertford, Herts. R. O., D/ELw Z 22/4 (s. xi med.; BA Facs., 22)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 204r-v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1034 A.D. 1061. King Edward to Wulfwold, abbot; grant of land at Ashwick, Somerset. Bath

  • 1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 55-131, pp. 90-92 (s. xii 2)
  • 1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 55-131, p. 127 (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S1039 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. Westminster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, ff. 113v-120r (s. xv)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, ff. 43v-45v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1040 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. Westminster

  • 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 2, quire 3 (s. xvi)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, ff. 78r-79r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1061 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). Mont Saint-Michel

  • 1. Avranches, Bibliothèque, 210, f. 32v (s. xii; Keynes 1991/1, p. 191)
  • 2. Exeter, D.R.O., 'Otterton Customal', f. 57r (s. xiii)
• Metadata

  S1063 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. Abbotsbury

  • 1. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 8 Edw. II, m. 3 (no. 5)
  • 2. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 23, no. 1
• Metadata

  S1064 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. Abbotsbury

  • 1. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 8 Edw. II, m. 3 (no. 5)
  • 2. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 23, no. 1
• Metadata

  S1066 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. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 113r (s. xiii in.; both versions)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 132r (s. xii 2; both versions)
• Metadata

  S1073 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. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 23r-v (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 31r (s. xiii/xiv)
• Metadata

  S1074 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. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 23r-v (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 31v (s. xiii/xiv)
• Metadata

  S1076 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. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 23v (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 31v (s. xiii/xiv)
• Metadata

  S1077 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. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 23r (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 31r (s. xiii/xiv)
• Metadata

  S1080 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. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 23r (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 31v (s. xiii/xiv)
• Metadata

  S1081 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. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 23r (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 31v (s. xiii/xiv)
• Metadata

  S1082 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. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, ff. 22v-23r (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 31r (s. xiii/xiv)
• Metadata

  S1086 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. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, p. 16 (s. xv)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 223, f. 20r-v (s. xvi 1)
• Metadata

  S1087 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. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, p. 332 (s. xiii)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 223, f. 21v (s. xvi 1)
• Metadata

  S1099 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. Coventry

  • 1. Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Birthplace Library, Gregory Leiger-Book, pp. 23-24 (s. xiv; both versions)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 32100, f. 115v (s. xvi; Latin only)
• Metadata

  S1105 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. Paris, Saint-Denis

  • 1. Paris, Archives nationale, Cartons de rois, K 19, no 6 (BA Facs., 20; Barlow 1970, pl. 6, opp. p. 105; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, p. 18; Harmer, Writs, pl. 2)
  • 2. Paris, Archives nationale, LL 1156, ff. 83r-84r (s. xiii)
• Metadata

  S1106 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. Ramsey

  • 1. London, Public Record Office, E 164/28, f. 159r (s. xiv)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 333, f. 21v (s. xiv 1)
• Metadata

  S1107 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. Ramsey

  • 1. London, Public Record Office, E 164/28, f. 159r (s. xiv)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 333, f. 21v (s. xiv 1)
• Metadata

  S1108 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. Ramsey

  • 1. London, Public Record Office, E 164/28, f. 159r (s. xiv)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 333, f. 21r (s. xiv 1)
• Metadata

  S1111 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. Wells

  • 1. Wells, DC., Liber Albus I, ff. 2-64, f. 14r (s. xiii med.; English)
  • 2. Wells, DC., Liber Albus I, ff. 2-64, f. 14v (s. xiii med.; Latin)
• Metadata

  S1114 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. Wells

  • 1. Wells, DC., Liber Albus II, ff. 21v-22r (s. xiv/xv)
  • 2. Wells, DC., Liber Fuscus, ff. 1-28, f. 14r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1117 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. Westminster

  • 1. Lost
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, f. 108r (s. xiii)
• Metadata

  S1118 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. Westminster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, f. 107r-v (s. xiii)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 269r (s. xiv; incomplete)
• Metadata

  S1119 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. Westminster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, f. 111r-v (s. xiii)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 506r-v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1122 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. Westminster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, f. 106r-v (s. xiii)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, ff. 185v-186r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1123 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.). Westminster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, f. 107r (s. xiii)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 227r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1125 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. Westminster

  • 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. M. XVIII (s. xii; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 17; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, pl. 23a)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 46r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1127 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. Westminster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, f. 111v (s. xiii)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 46r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1129 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. Westminster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, f. 105r-v (s. xiii)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 647v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1130 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). Westminster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, f. 108r-v (s. xiii)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 154v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1135 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. Westminster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, ff. 106v-107r (s. xiii)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 226v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1136 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. Westminster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, f. 105r (s. xiii)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 505r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1137 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. Westminster

  • 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. M. XVII (s. xii; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 15)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 465r-v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1139 A.D. 1065 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given land at Launton, Oxon., to Westminster Abbey. Westminster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, ff. 103v-104r (s. xiii)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 275r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1146 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. Westminster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, ff. 109v-110r (s. xiii)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 278r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1149 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. Westminster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, ff. 110v-111r (s. xiii)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 96r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1150 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. Westminster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, ff. 111v-112r (s. xiii)
  • 2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 96r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1159 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. York

  • 1. York, DC., Magnum Registrum Album, pt 1, f. 61v (s. xiv)
  • 2. York, DC., Magnum Registrum Album, pt 1, f. 62v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1160 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. York

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 61901, f. 70r (s. xiv ex.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 560, f. 23r (s. xvi/xvii)
• Metadata

  S1163 A.D. 1066. Writ of King Harold declaring that Bishop Giso is to have judicial and financial rights as fully and completely as ever he did in King Edward's time. Wells

  • 1. Wells, DC., Liber Albus I, ff. 2-64, f. 14r (s. xiii med.; English)
  • 2. Wells, DC., Liber Albus I, ff. 2-64, f. 14v (s. xiii med.; Latin)
• Metadata

  S1165 A.D. 672 x 674 (Fullingadich, 1 March). Frithuwold, subregulus of Surrey, to Eorcenwold and to St Peter's minster, Chertsey; grant of 200 (or 300) hides (manentes) at Chertsey and 5 at Thorpe, with 10 hides by the port of London. The property comprises land at Chertsey, Thorpe, Egham, Getinges (cf. Eaton Farm, Chobham), Molesey, Woodham in Chertsey and Hunewaldesham (lost) in Weybridge, Surrey. Confirmed by Wulfhere, king of the Mercians, in the royal vill at Thame, Oxon. Chertsey

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XIII, ff. 20v-23r (s. xiii)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 78 (S.C. 5019), ff. 56r-57r (s. xvii; without bounds)
• Metadata

  S1168 A.D. 670 x 671 [? A.D. 681] (October). Wigheard to Abbes Bernguidis (Beorngyth); grant of 40 hides (manentes) at Slæpi (Islip, Oxon). Bath

  • 1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 55-131, p. 59 (s. xii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 863, f. 87r (s. xvi)
• Metadata

  S1174 A.D. 706. Æthelric, son of King Oshere, with the consent of Cenred. king of the Mercians, to St Mary's at Hom (Evesham); grant of 8 hides (manentes) at Childswickham, Worcs. Evesham

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XXIV, f. 33r (s. xii/xiii)
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 3763, f. 66v (s. xii)
• Metadata

  S1177 A.D. 704 x 709. Æthelheard and Æthelweard (rulers of the Hwicce) to Cuthswith; grant of 5 hides (manentes) at Ingon, Warwicks., in return for 600 shillings. Worcester

  • 1. Lost original
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 4660, f. 3v (s. xvii; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S1179 A.D. 705 x 726. Hean to Cille, his sister; grant for life of 48 hides (cassati) at Bradfield, 55 at Escesdun (i.e. the Berkshire Downs) and 73 at Earmundeslea (cf. Bessels Leigh), Berks., with reversion to himself or the minster (probably at Bradfield). Abingdon (? ex Bradfield minster)

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 6v-7r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, ff. 105v-106r (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S1184 A.D. 780 (Selsey). Oslac, dux of the South Saxons, to the church of St Paul; grant of land at Earnley, Sussex, and Tielæsora; with confirmation by Offa, king of Mercia, A.D. 787 x 796. Selsey

  • 1. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Cap. 1/17/2 (s. viii 2; BA Facs., 2; Ch.L.A., iv, no. 236; Birch 1892; Heron-Allen 1911, plate 27; Making of England, p. 203 (no. 157), face only; Kelly, Selsey, pl. I, opp. p. 64)
  • 2. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/2, f. 18r (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1188 A.D. 805 x 810 (or 805 x 815). Oswulf, aldormonn, and Beornthryth, his wife, to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of 20 sulungs at Stanhamstead (in Aldington), Kent, with confirmation by Archbishop Wulfred. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 79 (s. ix; BM Facs., i. 15; Keller 1906, no. 1)
  • 2. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, pp. 406-407 (s. xiii)
• Metadata

  S1189 A.D. 810. Ælfgar, comes, to Siward, abbot, and Crowland Abbey; grant of land at Holbeach, Whaplode, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Algarkirk, Dowdike, Drayton and Burtoft, Lincs. Crowland

  • 1. Lost
  • 2. Oxford, Queen's College, 368, pp. 214-215 (s. xvii)
• Metadata

  S1196 ? A.D. 859. 1. Plegred declares that he has purchased from Æthelmod, dix, a half tun which previously pertained to Wilburgewellan near Canterbury (? Well near Ickham), Kent. 2. Æthelmod grants the land to Plegred. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 16 (s. ix med.; BM Facs., ii. 34)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, James 24 (S.C. 3861), pp. 95-96 (s. xvii; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S1201 A.D. 868. Æthelswith, queen of Mercia, to Cuthwulf, minister.; grant of 15 hides (manentes.) at Lockinge, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 14r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 108r-v (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S1203 A.D. 875. Eardwulf to Wighelm; grant of 1 sulung and a 'yokelet' at Hamme (? Ham in Romney Marsh, Kent), in return for 120 mancuses of gold; with confirmation by Archbishop Plegmund, A.D. 890 x 923. The land had been given to Eardwulf by King Alfred. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 89 (s. ix 2; BM Facs., ii. 40)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, James 24 (S.C. 3861), p. 97 (s. xvii; extract; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S1217 A.D. 987. Æthelmær, satrap of King Æthelred and son of Æthelweard, founds Cerne Abbey, the endowment including land at Cerne and Æscere, 6 hides (cassati) at Mintern, 10 at Winterborne Abbas, 6 and 12 at Little and Long Bredy and 3 at Renscombe [to pass to the minster after Æthelmær's death], land at Poxwell [granted by Leofric of Poxwell, clericus], and the reversion of 4 hides at Affpuddle [granted by Ælfrith of Bincombe, Æthelmær's propinquus, after the death of Leofwine] and of 5 hides (mansae) at Bloxworth [granted by Ælfwold, after the death of his wife], and tithes from Cerne and Cheselbourne, all in Dorset. Cerne

  • 1. London, Public Record Office, C 52, 21, no. 16 (s. xiii)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 68 (S.C. 5010), f. 69r-v (s. xvii; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S1231 A.D. 1042 x 1065. Record of agreement between Eadnoth and his wife, and Abbot Ælfwine and the community of St Benedict's, Ramsey, concerning land at Acleia. Eadnoth and his wife are to retain the land for their lifetimes, after which it will revert to Ramsey. They are to pay 2 pounds every year to their son Æthelric, a monk at Ramsey, for his clothing. Their man Leofwine is to keep his virgate until his death, when it will revert to the church. Ramsey

  • 1. London, Public Record Office, E 164/28, f. 160v (s. xiv)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 333, f. 22v (s. xiv 1)
• Metadata

  S1232 A.D. 1052 x 1057. Leofric, comes, and his wife (Godgifu), to St Mary's, Worcester; grant of 5 hides at Wolverley, Worcs., and 2 at Blackwell in Tredington, Warwicks., and a haga in the port (? Worcester). Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 183r-v (s. xi 2)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ballard 67 (S.C. 10853), f. 45v (s. xviii; English only; from Hearne)
• Metadata

  S1235 A.D. 1053 x 1066. Oswulf and Æthelgyth, his wife, to Abbot Leofstan and St Albans Abbey; grant of 1 pound and of land at Studham, Beds., the donors retaining a life interest, in return for admission into confraternity with the abbey. St Albans

  • 1. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), f. 163r-v (s. xvii; both versions)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Nero D. I, ff. 149-61, f. 151v (s. xiii; Latin only)
• Metadata

  S1243a A.D. 1042 x 1066. Eadgifu and her husband to the church of St Paul; grant of land at Weeley, Essex. London, St Paul's

  • 1. London, St Paul's DC., W.D., 1, f. 38v (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, St Paul's DC., W.D., 4, f. 9v (s. xiii)
• Metadata

  S1251 A.D. 714. Statement by Ecgwine, bishop of the Hwicce, on the foundation and endowment of the minster at Evesham. The endowment included land at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwicks., and Chadbury, Worcs., and the minster at Fladbury, Worcs. [granted by King Æthelred (of Mercia); the land at Stratford was later ceded to Æthelheard, subregulus of the Hwicce, in exchange for the restoration of Fladbury]; 84 hides (mansae) around Evesham, on both sides of the river Avon [granted by Cenred, king of Mercia, and Offa, king of the East Angles (recte Essex)]; 20 hides at Twyford, Worcs. [granted by Osward]; 8 hides [granted by Æthelric, son of King Oshere]; and 8 hides [granted by Balterius, sacerdos]. Evesham

  • 1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 128, f. 147v (s. xvii; incomplete)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson A 287, ff. 127v-128v (s. xiii)
• Metadata

  S1255 A.D. 774. Milred, bishop of Worcester, to Æthelburh, abbess; lease, for life, of 21 hides (manentia) at Withington, Gloucs., with reversion to the church of St Peter, Worcester. The land had previously been granted by Oshere, subregulus of the Hwicce, to Dunne, famula Dei, and by Dunne to her grand-daughter Hrothwaru (cf. S 1429). Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 25v-26r (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 130v (s. xvii; incomplete; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S1278 A.D. 872. Wærferth, bishop of Worcester, and the Worcester familia, to Eanwulf, minister; lease, for four lives, of 2 hides (mansae or mansiones) at Nuthurst, Warwicks., in return for 20 mancuses of gold, with reversion to the monastery of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwicks. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 184r (s. xi)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 108r-109r (s. xi 1)
• Metadata

  S1280 A.D. 904. Wærferth, bishop, and the community at Worcester, to Æthelred and Æthelflæd, their lords; lease, for their lives and that of Ælfwyn, their daughter, of a messuage (haga) in Worcester and land at Barbourne in North Claines, Worcs., with reversion to the bishop. Bounds of appurtentant meadow west of the Severn. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 182r (s. xi)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 6v-7v (s. xi 1)
• Metadata

  S1289 A.D. 922. Wilfrid, bishop, to the community at Worcester; grant of land at Clifford Chambers, Warwicks. Worcester

  • 1. Lost original
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 4660, f. 8r (s. xvii; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S1292 A.D. 956 x 957. Agreement between Brihthelm, bishop, and Æthelwold abbot (of Abingdon) whereby Brihthelm gives land at Kennington, Berks., to Abingdon, in exchange for land at Curbridge, Oxon. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 54r (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 115r (s. xii 2; Latin note)
• Metadata

  S1294 A.D. 966 (St Paul's, London). Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury, Oscytel, archbishop of York, and others, to Crowland Abbey; confirmation of lands and privileges. Crowland

  • 1. London, British Library, Arundel 178, f. 45r-v (s. xvi)
  • 2. Oxford, Queen's College, 368, pp. 193-197 (s. xvii)
• Metadata

  S1298 A.D. 962. Oswald, bishop, to Ælfwold, minister; lease, for his life and that of his mother, of 3 hides (cassatae) at Cungle (on the river Coln, Gloucs.), with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. The land was previously held by Ealhthryth, matrona. Worcester

  • 1. Lost Somers charter 12
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 101r (s. xi 1)
• Metadata

  S1301 A.D. 962. Oswald, bishop, to Eadmær, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 2 hides (mansae) at Bentley in Holt, saltpans at Upwich (lost, in Droitwich) and woodland at Bradley, all in Worcs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 68v-69r (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 159v (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1302 A.D. 962. Oswald, bishop, to Ealhferth, one of his deacons; lease, for three lives, of 1 hide (mansa) at Cassey Compton in Withington, Gloucs., with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 184v (s. xi; abbreviated)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 113v (s. xi 1)
• Metadata

  S1303 A.D. 963. Oswald, bishop, to Ælfric, his minster; lease, for three lives, of 1 hide (mansa) at Cotheridge, Worcs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. A note, in English, names Æthelsige, son of Ælfric, as the second life, and one of his male descendants as the third. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 63r-v (s. xi 1; Golden Age, p. 168 (no. 171), 63r only)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, ff. 158v-159r (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1304 A.D. 963. Oswald, bishop, to Æthelnoth, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 1 hide (mansa) at Harford in Naunton, Gloucs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 46204 (s. xi; fragment)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 61v-62r (s. xi 1)
• Metadata

  S1306 A.D. 963. Oswald, bishop, to Eadmær, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 1 hide (mansa) at Redmarley D'Abitot, Gloucs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 84r-v (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 159r-v (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1308 A.D. 965 for c. 991 (Worcester). Oswald, bishop, to Athelstan, his brother; lease, for three lives, of 2 hides (manentes) at Southam Delabere in Bishops Cleeve, Gloucs., and 2 at Mitton in Bredon, Worcs. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 184r (s. xi; abbreviated)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 111r-v (s. xi 1)
• Metadata

  S1313 A.D. 967. Oswald, bishop, to Eadmær, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 6 hides (manentes or cassati) at Stoke Orchard, Gloucs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 184r (s. xi; abbreviated)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 111v (s. xi 1)
• Metadata

  S1314 A.D. 967. Oswald, bishop, to Hæhstan, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 2 hides (mansae) at Pendock and 1 at Didcot in Beckford, Worcs. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 86r-v (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 163r-v (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1316 A.D. 967. Oswald, bishop of Worcester, to Wulfgar, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 2 hides (mansae) at Itchington in Tytherington, Gloucs. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118 (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX (s. xvii)
• Metadata

  S1320 A.D. 969. Oswald, bishop, to Brihtmær, his minister; lease, for, three lives, of 1 hide (mansa) at Whitlinge in Hartlebury, Worcs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 80v-81r (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 160v (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1321 A.D. 969. Oswald, bishop, to Byrnric, his fidelis; lease, for three lives, of 4.5 hides (mansi) at Longdon in Tredington, Worcs., with reversion to the bishopric. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 98r-v (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 130r (s. xvii; incomplete; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S1322 A.D. 969. Oswald, bishop, to Cynhelm, his faithful minister; lease, for three lives, of 5 hides (mansae) at Croome D'Abitot, Worcs., with reversion to the bishopric. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 85r-86r (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, ff. 157v-158r (s. xi 2; bounds only; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S1323 A.D. 969. Oswald, bishop, to Eadmær, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 3 hides (mansi) at Little Witley, Worcs., with reversion to the bishopric. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 75r-v (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 159v (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1325 A.D. 969. Oswald, bishop, to Ealhstan, his fidelis; lease of 8 hides (mansae) at Evenlode, Gloucs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 100r-v (s. xi 1)
  • 2. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, français 19116, f. 40v (s. xvi; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1326 A.D. 969. Oswald, bishop, to his kinsman Osulf, the cniht; lease, for three lives, of land at Teddington and Alstone, Gloucs., with reversion first to Eadleofu, his wife (if his children do not survive), and then to two of her brothers, with ultimate reversion to the church of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. Ch. 19792 (s. x 2; BM Facs., iii. 28; Keller 1906, no. 5)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 83v-84r (s. xi 1)
• Metadata

  S1327 A.D. 969. Oswald, bishop, to Wulfgar, clericus; lease, for three lives, of 1 hide (mansa), with the church etc., at Battenhall in St Peter's-without-Worcester and at Perry in St Martin's-without-Worcester, including a messuage (haga) in Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 64v-65r (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 162r (s. xi 2; bounds of Perry only)
• Metadata

  S1329 A.D. 974. Oswald, archbishop, to Brihtlaf, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 1 hide (mansa) at Cudley in St Martin's-without-Worcester, with reversion to the church of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 73v-74r (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 162v (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1330 A.D. 977. Oswald, archbishop, to Ælfweard, his fidelis; lease, for three lives, of 5 hides (mansae) at Tidmington, Warwicks., with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 89v-90r (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 157v (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1338 A.D. 978. Oswald, archbishop, to Æthelmund, his minister; lease, for three lives, of one hide (mansa) at Redmarley D'Abitot, Gloucs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 83r-v (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 159r (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1339 A.D. 978. Oswald, archbishop, to Æthelnoth, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 1 hide (mansa) at Smite in Hindlip, Worcs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 71r-72r (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 160v (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1342 A.D. 980. Oswald, archbishop, to Wulfgar, his clericus; lease, for three lives, of 5 hides (mansae) at Waresley in Hartlebury, Worcs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 67v-68v (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 160r-v (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1343 A.D. 981. Oswald, archbishop, to Athelstan, his miles; extension, for two further lives, of a lease of 3 hides (cassati) at Pegglesworth in Dowdeswell, Gloucs., granted by Bishop Cenwold to Athelstan's father, with ultimate reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 184r-v (s. xi; abbreviated)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 112r (s. xi 1)
• Metadata

  S1351 A.D. 985. Oswald, bishop of Worcester, to Leofwine, his amicus; lease, for three lives, of a half hide (manens) at Hartlebury, Worcs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 81v (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 160v (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1352 A.D. 985. Oswald, archbishop of the Hwicce, to Wulfgar, clericus; lease, for three lives, of 1 hide (mansa) at Clopton in St John-in-Bedwardine, Worcs., with reversion to the church of Worcester, and of a messuage (haga) binnan mynstre on porte (Worcester), bequeathed by Wulfric, mass-priest, to his kinsman Wulfward. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 63v-64r (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 158r-v (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1360 A.D. 989. Oswald, archbishop, to Eadwig, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 1 hide (mansa) at Cassey Compton in Withington, Gloucs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 184v (s. xi)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 112v (s. xi 1)
• Metadata

  S1361 A.D. 989 (for 983 x 985). Oswald, archbishop, to Gardulf, his kinsman; lease, for three lives, of 4 hides (mansae) at Whittington, Worcs., with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 74r-v (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 162v (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1362 A.D. 990. Oswald, archbishop, to Æthelmær, his man; lease, for three lives, of 1 hide at Compton Greenfield and 1 at Marsh, Gloucs., in return for 2 pounds of silver and livestock, with postscript granting the worthig at Brynes hamme which Æthelm owned. Bounds of Marsh. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 46204 (s. xi; fragment)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 60v-61v (s. xi 1)
• Metadata

  S1369 ? A.D. 987. Oswald, archbishop, to Goding, priest; lease, for three lives, of 3 hides at Bredicot, a yardland at Genenofre, 7 acres of meadow in the hamm belonging to Tibberton, and a messuage by the gate (in Worcester). Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 66r-67r (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, ff. 161v-162r (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1370 A.D. 961 x 972 (? 969). Oswald, bishop of Worcester, to Osulf, his brother; lease, for three lives, of 4 hides (mansi) at Grimley, 1 at Moseley in Grimley and a half hide at Wick Episcopi in St-John-in-Bedwardine, with reversion to the bishopric. Worcester

  • 1. Lost Somers charter 13
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 70r-71r (s. xi 1)
• Metadata

  S1372 A.D. 975 x 978 (? 977). Oswald, archbishop, to Wulfgar, priest; lease, for three lives, of 1 hide at Little Witley, Worcs., with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 65v-66r (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 159v (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1373 A.D. 975 x 978 (? 977). Oswald, archbishop, to Wulfgeat, his cniht; lease, for three lives, of 1 hide at Himbleton (i.e. Huddington), Worcs., with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 72r-v (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 161r (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1380 A.D. 996 (for 994). Sigeric, archbishop of Canterbury, confirms a grant by Wulfrun for the monastery at Wolverhampton of land at Upper Arley, Worcs.; Eswich (? Ashwood), Bilston, Willenhall, Wednesfield, Pelsall, Ogley, Hilton near Wall, Hatherton, Kinvaston, Hilton near Wolverhampton, and Featherstone, all in Staffs. Wolverhampton

  • 1. Lost
  • 2. Manchester, John Rylands Library, English 880, ff. 145r-148v (s. xvii; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S1384 A.D. 1017. Wulfstan, archbishop, to Ælfwig, his brother; lease, for three lives, of 6 hides (manentes) at Bentley in Holt, Worcs., and salt-ovens at Droitwich, with reversion to the church of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. Lost original
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 4660, f. 9v (s. xvii; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S1385 A.D. 1003 x 1016. Wulfstan, archbishop, to Wulfgifu; lease, for three lives, of a half (mansa) hide at Perry Wood in St Martin's-without-Worcester, with reversion to the church of Worcester. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. Ch. 19795 (s. xi in.; BM Facs., iv. 13)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 162r-v (s. xi 2; bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1386 A.D. 1020. Writ of Archbishop Wulfstan informing King Cnut and Queen Ælfgifu (Emma) that Æthelnoth has been consecrated to the see of Canterbury. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 14907, ff. 16v-17r (s. xviii)
  • 2. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1370, f. 69v (s. xi)
• Metadata

  S1387 A.D. 1016 x 1020, probably 1018. Eadnoth, bishop, to Beorhtnoth; mortgage of a yardland by the river Creedy, Devon (? Creedy Barton in Newton St Cyres). Exeter (ex Crediton)

  • 1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. a. 2 (S.C. 31346), no. III, verso (BA Facs., 27, dorse)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Roll ii. 11 (s. xiii)
• Metadata

  S1390 A.D. 1020 x 1038. Æthelnoth, archbishop, to Ælfwold and Eadred, his ministri; lease of 50 agri at St Mary's Abbey, Reculver, to be held at the will of Guichardus, deacon of St Mary's. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. Canterbury, D.C., R 17 (s. xi 1; OS Facs., i. 22)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 4558, ff. 109r-110r (s. xviii)
• Metadata

  S1404 A.D. 1045 x 1048. Writ of Bishop Siward concerning Brihtwine's claim to Leckhampstead, Berks. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 111r-v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 130v (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S1406 A.D. 1046 x 1053. Ealdred, bishop, to Athelstan 'the fat'; lease, for three lives, of 2 hides at Hill and Moor, Worcs. Worcester

  • 1. Lost original
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 4660, f. 10r (s. xvii; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S1411 A.D. 757 x 774. Ceolfrith, abbot, to the church of St Peter, Worcester, and the bishopric of Worcester; grant of 20 hides (manentes) at Henbury, Gloucs., and 14 (cassati) at Sture in the province of Ismere, Worcs. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 181v (s. xi; incomplete)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 52v-53r (s. xi 1)
• Metadata

  S1412 A.D. 786 x 796. Beonna, abbot of Medeshamstede, to Cuthbert, princeps; lease of 10 hides (manentes) at Swineshead, Lincs., in return for 1000 shillings and annual hospitality (unius noctis pastum) valued at 30 sicli, with ultimate reversion to Medeshamstede. Peterborough

  • 1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, f. 41r-v (s. xii med.)
  • 2. Peterborough, DC., 1, f. 131r (s. xiii med.)
• Metadata

  S1416 A.D. 892. Bishop Werferth, with the agreement of the familia at Worcester, arranges for himself the lease, for four lives, of 3 hides (manentes) at South Hethfeld and of land at Hreodhalh. Worcester

  • 1. Lost original
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 4660, f. 4v (s. xvii; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S1417 A.D. 924 x 933. The familia of New Minster, Winchester, to Alfred, minister of King Athelstan; lease, for three lives, of 20 hides (cassati) at Chisledon, Wilts., in return for 80 mancuses of gold and an annual rent of 80 shillings. Winchester, New Minster

  • 1. Winchester, Winchester College Muniment Room, Cabinet 7, Drawer 2, 3 (s. x med.; OS Facs., ii, Winchester College 2)
  • 2. Shirburn Castle, Earl of Macclesfield, Liber Abbatiae, f. 21v (s. xv 1)
• Metadata

  S1425 A.D. 1049 x 1052. Leofstan, abbot, and St Albans Abbey, to Tova, widow of Wihtric, in return for 3 marks of gold and an annual render of honey; lease, for her lifetime and that of her son, Godwine, of land at Cyrictiwa (Great Tew, Oxon.), with reversion to St Albans. St Albans

  • 1. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), ff. 163v-164r (s. xvii; both versions)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Nero D. I, ff. 149-61, f. 151v (s. xiii; Latin only)
• Metadata

  S1428 Writ of the monk Edwin, child-master at New Minster, Winchester, concerning an agreement between Old and New Minster. Winchester, Old Minster and Winchester, New Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 116v-117r (s. xii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Stowe 944, f. 40r-v (s. xii)
• Metadata

  S1433 A.D. 824 (Clofesho, 30 Oct.). Record of the settlement of a dispute between Heahberht, bishop, and the familia at Berkeley, Gloucs., concerning land at Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucs. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 181r (s. xi)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 47r-48r (s. xi 1)
• Metadata

  S1440 A.D. 852. Agreement between Abbot Ceolred and the community at Medeshamstede, and Wulfred, concerning land at Sempringham, Sleaford, Lincs.; Forde; Cheal, Lincs.; and at Lehcotum. Peterborough

  • 1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, f. 46r-v (s. xii med.)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud misc. 636 (S.C. 1003) (s. xii; summary; facsimile in Whitelock 1954)
• Metadata

  S1441 A.D. 896 (Gloucester). Record of an agreement between Wærferth, bishop of Worcester, and Æthelwold concerning woodland at Woodchester, Bisley, Avening, Gloucs.; and at Scorranstone (? Sherston, Wilts.) and Thornbyrig (? Thornbury, Gloucs.) and swine-pasture at Longridge, Gloucs. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 43r-44r (s. xi 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian A. V, ff. 148-94, f. 169r (s. xvi; ex 1)
• Metadata

  S1442 A.D. 897. Settlement of a dispute between the churches of Winchcombe and Worcester concerning land at Upton in Blockley, Gloucs. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 183r (s. xi)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 14r-v (s. xi 1)
• Metadata

  S1444 A.D. 900 x 908. Letter of Denewulf, bishop, to King Edward concerning 60 hides at Beddington, Surrey. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 96v (s. xii med.; Latin)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 96v-97r (s. xii med.; English)
• Metadata

  S1447 c. A.D. 950-68. Record of a dispute involving estates at Send, Surrey, and at Sunbury, Middx, and a note of their purchase by Dunstan, archbishop. Westminster

  • 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. M. VIII (s. x 2; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 7; Tapp 1951, facing p. 12)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 4558, ff. 143r-146r (s. xviii)
• Metadata

  S1456 A.D. 995 x 1005. An account of the settlement of a dispute between Godwine, bishop of Rochester, and Leofwine, son of Ælfheah, concerning land at Snodland, Kent. Rochester

  • 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 155r-156v (s. xii 1)
  • 2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 10v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1459 A.D. 1014 x 1023 (? 1017). Marriage agreement whereby Wulfric, on marrying the sister of Archbishop Wulfstan, promises her land at Orleton and Ribblesford, Worcs., for her life, undertakes to obtain for her from the community at Worcester a lease, for three lives, of land at Knightwick, Worcs., and settles on her land at Alton in Rock, Worcs. Worcester

  • 1. Lost Somers charter 18
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ballard 67 (S.C. 10853) (s. xviii; ex Hearne)
• Metadata

  S1463 A.D. 1020 x 1023 (London). Record of the acquisition by Ælfsige, abbot of Peterborough, on behalf of the abbey, of fenland at Whittlesey Mere, Hunts., from Thored, in exchange for land at Orton, Hunts., and a sum of money. Peterborough

  • 1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, ff. 24r-25v (s. xii med.)
  • 2. Peterborough, DC., 1, ff. 119v-120r (s. xiii med.)
• Metadata

  S1464 A.D. 1020 x 1038 (Monks Risborough, Bucks.). Agreement between Archbishop Æthelnoth and Toki concerning land at Halton, Bucks., bequeathed to Christ Church by Wulfnoth. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 14907, ff. 18v-19r (s. xviii; ex 2)
  • 2. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1370, f. 115r (s. xi)
• Metadata

  S1466 A.D. 1038 x 1050. Agreement between Archbishop Eadsige and Toki, confirming arrangements made in the time of Archbishop Æthelnoth about land at Halton, Bucks. (cf. S 1464). Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 14907, ff. 21v-22r (s. xviii; ex 2)
  • 2. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1370, f. 114r (s. xi)
• Metadata

  S1470 A.D. 1043 x 1047. Agreement between the abbey and community of Bury St Edmunds, and Wulfgeat and his wife, concerning land at Gislingham, Suffolk, and Fakenham, Norfolk. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 49v (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 19r-v (s. xiii/xiv)
• Metadata

  S1481 A.D. 1042 x 1055. History of land at Ryhall and Belmesthorpe, Rutland, claimed by Peterborough Abbey. Peterborough

  • 1. London, British Library, Egerton 2733, ff. 37r-38r (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, f. 28v (s. xii med.)
• Metadata

  S1483 A.D. 946 x c. 951. Will of Ælfgar, including bequests of land at Cockfield, Suffolk; Fen Ditton, Cambs.; Lavenham, Suffolk; Baythorne, Essex; Monks Eleigh, Suffolk; Colne, Tey, Peldon, (West) Mersea, Greenstead, Tidwoldingstone (Heybridge near Maldon) and Totham, Essex; Ashfield and Rushbrook, Suffolk; the beneficiaries including St Edmunds, Bedericesworth; the community at Stoke (probably Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk); St Mary's, Barking; Christ Church, Canterbury; and St Paul's, London. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 46r (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, ff. 16v-17r (s. xiii/xiv)
• Metadata

  S1486 A.D. 1000 x 1002. Will of Ælfflæd, including bequests of land at Dovercourt, Fulanpettæ (Beaumont), Alresford, Stanway, Byrton in Stanway (lost), Lexden, Essex; Elmsett and Buxhall, Suffolk, to the king; at Stoke, Suffolk; Hatfield (? Peverel, Essex), Stratford St Mary, Freston, Wiston, Lavenham, Balsdon, Polstead, Withermarsh, Suffolk; Greenstead (near Colchester), Peldon, (West) Mersea, Totham, Colne and Tey, Essex, to Stoke (? Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk); and at Monks Eleigh, Suffolk, to Christ Church, Canterbury; at Hadham, Herts., and at Tidwoldingtune (Heybridge near Maldon, Essex) to St Paul's, London; and at Baythorn, Essex, to Barking Abbey; at Woodham, Essex, to Ælfthryth, the king's mother, for life, with reversion to St Mary's, Barking; at Chelsworth and Cockfield, Suffolk, to St Edmund's Abbey; and at Nedging, Suffolk, to the same after the death of Crawe, her kinswoman; at Fingringhoe and Mersea, Essex, to the minster at Mersea; at Waldingfield, Suffolk, to St Gregory's, Sudbury, after the death of Crawe; at Rettendon, Essex; Soham, Ditton and Cheveley, Cambs., to Ely Abbey; at Lawling, Essex, to Ealdorman Æthelmær; and at Liston, Essex, to Æthelmær. With bounds of Balsdon, Withermarsh and Polstead appended. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. London, British Library, Harley Charter 43 C 4 (BM Facs., iii. 35)
  • 2. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 47r (s. xiii 2)
• Metadata

  S1490 Probably A.D. 1042 x 1043. Will of Ælfric Modercope, including bequests of land at Thurwineholm and Loddon, Norfolk, to (Bury) St Edmunds; at Bergh Apton, Norfolk, with Fuglholm to St Etheldreda's (Ely); at Barton Turf, Norfolk, to St Benedict's, Holme. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 45r (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 15r (s. xiii/xiv)
• Metadata

  S1494 A.D. 962 x 991, probably after 975. Will of Æthelflæd, including bequest of land at Lambourn, Cholsey and Reading, Berks., to the king; at Damerham, Hants., to Glastonbury; at Hamme to Christ Church, Canterbury; at Woodham, Essex, to Ealdorman Brihtnoth and her sister for life, with reversion to St Mary's, Barking; at Hadham, Herts., to the same, for life, with reversion to St Paul's, London; at Fen Ditton, Cambs., to Ely Abbey; at Cockfield and Chelsworth, Suffolk, to the same for life, with reversion to St Edmunds, Bedericesworth (Bury); at Fingringhoe, Essex, to the same for life, with reversion to St Peter's, Mersea; at Polstead, Suffolk, to the same for life, with reversion to Stoke (? Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk); at Withermarsh, Suffolk, to Stoke; at Stratford St Mary, Lavenham, Balsdon, Suffolk, and at Peldon, Mersea and Greenstead (near Colchester), Essex, to Ealdorman Brihtnoth and her sister for life, with reversion to Stoke; at Elmsett, Suffolk, to the same for life, with reversion to Edmund; at Thorpe (? Morieux, Suffolk), to Hadleigh, Suffolk; at Wickford, Essex, to Sibriht, her kinsman; at Hadham, Herts., to Ecgwine, her reeve; at Donyland, Essex, to Brihtwold, her servant, to Ælfwold and Æthelmær, her priests, and to Ælfgeat, her kinsman; and at Waldingfield, Suffolk, to Crawe, her kinswoman. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. London, British Library, Harley Charter 43 C 4 (s. xi; BM Facs., iii. 35)
  • 2. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, ff. 46v-47r (s. xiii 2)
• Metadata

  S1498 A.D. 977 x 982. Will of Æthelmær, ealdorman, including bequests of 13 hides previously held by Lufa, to New Minster, Winchester; of land at Tidworth, Hants., to his wife, with reversion to New Minster; and of land at Igeneshamme (? Inglesham, Wilts. or Eynsham, Oxon.) and Cottesmore (lost, in Broadwell, Oxon.) to his sons. Winchester, New Minster

  • 1. Shirburn Castle, Earl of Macclesfield, Liber Abbatiae, ff. 35v-36v (s. xv 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 717, ff. 46r-47r (s. xvi; ex 1; Latin and ME bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1500 A.D. 805 x 832. Will of Æthelnoth, reeve at Eastry, and Gænburg, his wife, concerning arrangements for the disposition of land at Eythorne, Kent. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, British Library, Stowe Charters 8 (OS Facs., iii. 8)
  • 2. London, British Library, Stowe 853, ff. 12v-13r (s. xvii)
• Metadata

  S1502 A.D. 1048 x 1050. Æthelric Bigga to St Augustine's; bequest of land at Bodsham and Wilderton, Kent, to take effect after the death of the present tenants. Canterbury, St Augustine's

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 105r (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, Public Record Office, E 164/27, f. 83r-v (s. xiii)
• Metadata

  S1505 After A.D. 987. Will of Æthelwold, including bequests of 10 hides at Manningford Abbots, Wilts., to his wife for life, with reversion to New Minster, Winchester; and of land at Uptune (? Upton Scudamore, Wilts.) to his son. Winchester, New Minster

  • 1. Shirburn Castle, Earl of Macclesfield, Liber Abbatiae, ff. 33v-34r (s. xv 1)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 717, ff. 44v-45v (s. xvi; ex 1; Latin and ME bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1508 A.D. 871 x 899. Will of Alfred, ealdorman, including bequests of 32 hides at Sanderstead and Selsdon in Surrey, 20 at Westerham in Kent, 6 at Lingfield and 10 at Horsley, both in Surrey, and 6 at Nettlestead, Kent [to his wife, Werburg, and their daughter, Alhthryth]; of a annual render of 200 pence from an estate at Clapham, Surrey [to Chertsey minster]; of 2 hides at Waddington and 1 at Gatton, Surrey [to his son, Æthelwald]; of 1 hide at Linkfield in Reigate, Surrey, to his kinsman Beorhtsige; of land at Nettlestead, Kent, to his kinsman Sigewulf, burdened with an annual render to Christ Church, Canterbury; of land at Farleigh, Kent, burdened with an annual render to Rochester, to Eadred, after Æthelred's time, with reversion to Alfred's maternal relatives. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, British Library, Stowe Charters 20 (s. ix 2; Making of England, no. 239; OS Facs., iii. 20)
  • 2. London, British Library, Stowe 945, ff. 19r-23r (s. xviii)
• Metadata

  S1511 A.D. 975 x 987. (? 980 x 987) Will of Brihtric and Ælfswith, his wife, including bequests of 2 sulungs at Denton and 2 at Longfield, with renders from Hæslholt, Wateringbury, Birling and Harrietsham, all in Kent, to St Andrew's. Rochester; of land at Meopham, Kent, to Christ Church (Canterbury); and of land at Darenth to Brihtwaru for life with reversion to St Andrew's; of land at Birling to Wulfheah; at Wateringbury to Wulfsige; at Hæslholt to Sired; at Harrietsham to Wulfheah and Ælfheah; at Walkingstead (in Godstone, Surrey) to Wulfstan Ucca; at Stratton in Godstone, Surrey, to Walkingstead minster; and at Titsey, Surrey, to Wulfsige; also confirmation of earlier bequests of land at Fawkham, Bromley and Snodland, all in Kent, to St Andrew's (Rochester). Rochester

  • 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 144r-145r (s. xii 1; English)
  • 2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 145v-147r (s. xii 1; Latin)
• Metadata

  S1515 A.D. 951 x 955. Will of King Eadred, including bequests of land at Downton, Wilts., Damerham, Hants. (formerly Wilts.) and Calne, Wilts., to Old Minster, Winchester; at Wherwell, Andover and Kingsclere, Hants., to New Minster, Winchester; at Shalbourne, Wilts., Thatcham, Berks., and Bradford (? -on-Avon, Wilts.), to Nunnaminster, Winchester; at Amesbury, Wilts., Wantage, Berks., and Basing, Hants., with land in Sussex, Surrey and Kent to his mother. Winchester, New Minster

  • 1. Shirburn Castle, Earl of Macclesfield, Liber Abbatiae, ff. 22r-23r (s. xv 1; Old English, Middle English, and Latin versions)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 717, ff. 42r-43v (s. xvi; ex 1; Latin and ME bounds only)
• Metadata

  S1516 s. xi med. Will of Eadwine concerning land at Algarsthorpe, Little Melton, Bergh Apton (Ashwell), Thorpe, Great Melton, Wreningham, all in Norfolk; the beneficiaries being (Bury) St Edmunds, St Benedict's (Holme), St Etheldreda's (Ely), and the churches at Algarsthorpe, Little Melton, Bergh Apton, Norfolk; and Holverstone, Suffolk; Blyford, Sparham, Ashwell, Fundenhall and Nayland in Wreningham, all in Norfolk, also Ketel. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 45r-v (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 15v (s. xiii/xiv)
• Metadata

  S1519 A.D. 1052 x 1066. Will of Ketel, including bequests of land at Sisted, Essex, to Christ Church, Canterbury; at Harling, Norfolk, to Archbishop Stigand; the reversion of land at Great Melton, Norfolk, to St Benedict's at Holme and at Thorpe near Fundenhall, Norfolk, to Bury St Edmund's, after the deaths of Ketel and his uncle, Wulfric; land at Ketteringham, Norfolk, to his sister Bote, if she outlive him (if not, he is to have the land at Somerledetone [Somerton or Somerleyton, Suffolk]); land at Walsingham in East Carlton, Norfolk, to his sister Gode, if she outlive him (if not, he is to have the land at Preston, Suffolk); land at Hainford, Norfolk, and Coggeshall, Essex, to his brother Godric, and also land at Strattune (? Stratton Strawless, Norfolk), on payment of two pounds to Ælwig, Ketel's servant; the reversion of land at Onehouse, Suffolk, to Bury St Edmunds, after the deaths of Ketel and his stepdaughter, Ælfgifu; the half estate at Moran, Norfolk, to Earl Harold; land at Frating, Essex, according to an agreement made by (? Earl Harold) and Archbishop Stigand; land at Rashford, Suffolk, to Ælfric, his priest and kinsman. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, ff. 45v-46r (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 16r (s. xiii/xiv)
• Metadata

  S1521 A.D. 1035 x 1044. Will of Leofgifu, including bequests of land at Hintlesham, Essex, and Gestingthorpe, Suffolk, to Bury St Edmunds; the minster at (? Earls) Colne, Essex, to Æthelric and Ælfric, priests, and Æthelsige, deacon; land at Belchamp (? Walter), Essex, to her lady; land at (? Great) Bentley, Essex, to Alfweard, bishop (of London); at Boreham, Essex, to her kinsman Ælfgar; at Bramford, Suffolk, to her kinsman Ælfric, Wihtgar's son; at at Willesham, Suffolk, to Stigand; at Stonham, Waldingfield, Suffolk, and Little St Osyth, Essex, to Æthelric, her brother's son; at Haughley, Suffolk, to her daughter Ælfflæd; 3 hides at Warley, Essex, to Godwine, her brother-in-law; land at Stonham, Suffolk, to Æthelmær, (her reeve); 30 acres at Waldingfield, Suffolk, to Godric, her reeve at Waldingfield; land at Lawford, Essex, to Æthelric, her chaplain, and Ælfric and other servants; 1 hide at Forendale to Æthelric the priest. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 45r (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 15r-v (s. xiii/xiv)
• Metadata

  S1523 A.D. 1017 x 1035. Will of Mantat the anchorite bequeathing land at Twywell, Northants., and Conington, Hunts., to Thorney. Thorney

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Add. 3020, f. 18r (s. xiv)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 5937, ff. 131-33v, f. 133v (s. xvi; spelling normalised)
• Metadata

  S1525 s. x2-s. xi. Will of Sifflæd, concerning the bequest of Marlingford, Norfolk, to (Bury) St Edmund's. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 49v (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 19v (s. xiii/xiv; abbreviated)
• Metadata

  S1526 A.D. 942 x c. 951. Will of Theodred, bishop of London, including bequests of land at Duxford in Cambs., Illyntone (probably Illington, Norfolk) and Arrington, Cambs., to the king; land at St Osyth in Essex, Southery in Norfolk, and Tillingham and Dunmow in Essex, to St Paul's, London; land at Mendham, Suffolk, to his sister's son, Osgot (except for the minster and 1 hide, to belong to the church); land at Shotford and Mettingham, Suffolk, to Mendham church; land at Syleham, Instead, Chickering, Ashfield Green, all in Suffolk, and Wrtinham (? Wortham, Suffolk) to Osgot; land at Horham, Athelington, Suffolk, to St Æthelberht's church at Hoxne; land at Lothingland, Suffolk, to Offa, his sister's son; land at Barton, Rougham, Pakenham, Suffolk, to his kinsman Osgot, Eadulf's son; land at Nowton, Horningsheath, Ickworth and Whepstead, Suffolk, to St Edmund's church (Bury); land at Waldringfield and a messuage in Ipswich, Suffolk, to Osgot, his sister's son; land at Wortham, Suffolk, to Wulfstan; with arrangements for the episcopal demesne in London and at Hoxne, Suffolk; at Wimbledon and Sheen, Surrey; at Fulham, Middx; and at Dengie, Essex. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 48r (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, ff. 17v-18r (s. xiii/xiv)
• Metadata

  S1528 s. xi, probably after 1020. Will of Thurketel Heyng, including bequests of land at Caister, Norfolk, and Thorpe (? Thorpe Abbots or Morningthorpe, Norfolk) to St Benedict's at Holme and Bury St Edmunds; land at Ormesby, Norfolk, to his daughter Ælfwyn, with reversion to Holme; land at Scratby, Norfolk to his nephews' children, the sons of Swegen and Ealhmund. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 45r (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 15r (s. xiii/xiv)
• Metadata

  S1531 A.D. 1043 x 1045. Will of Thurstan, son of Wine, including bequests of land at Wimbish, Essex, to Christ Church, Canterbury; at Harlow, Essex (except the half hide at Ealing Bridge in Harlow which Ælfwine had), and Shouldham, Norfolk, to Bury St Edmunds; land at Wetheringsett, Suffolk, and at Knapwell, Cambs., to Ely abbey; land at Weston Colville, Cambs., to Æthelswith, for life, with reversion to Ely; land at Shouldham, Norfolk, to Ramsey and St Benedict's at Holme; land at Borough Green, Cambs., to Ulfketel, if he outlives Thurstan, except a half hide at Westley Waterless and 1 hide at Dullingham (granted to Thurstan's servant, Viking); land in Norfolk and at Pentlow, Ashdon and Henham, Essex, to his wife Æthelgyth (except land at Bromleg [possibly Bromley Barn in Widdington] and half a hide at Henham, to go to the local minsters); land at Kedington, Suffolk, to the priest Ælfwig and Thurstan's chaplains Thurstan and Ordheah; land at Little Dunmow, Essex, to Merewine and his family; and instructions that land at Bidicheseye (? Bottisham, Cambs.) was to be sold and payments made to a number of beneficiaries. With an additional section detailing further bequests, including the reversion of land at Henham, Essex, to Æthelswith and then to Ely abbey; a half hide at Ongar, Essex, to Thurgot, his servant; a half hide and a haga near Marden Ash in High Ongar, Essex, to Merewine; and a half hide to Swegn. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 49r-v (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 19r (s. xiii/xiv; part only)
• Metadata

  S1533 A.D. 931 x 939 (probably 933 x 939). Will of Wulfgar, including bequests of land at Collingbourne Kingston, Wilts., to his wife Æffe, for life, with reversion to New Minster, Winchester; at Inkpen, Berks., to Æffe, for life, with reversion to the church at Kintbury, Berks.; at Cræft to Wynsige and Ælfsige; at Denford, Berks., to Æthelstan and Cynestan; 2 hides at Buttermere, Wilts., to Brihtsige and one of Ceolstan's sons; at Æscmere (cf. Ashmanworth, Hants.) 'to such of my young kinsmen as obey me best'; and at Ham, Wilts., to Æffe, for life, with reversion to Old Minster, Winchester. Winchester, Old Minster

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 16 (BM Facs., iii. 3; Lowe 1993a, p. 5)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 83r (s. xii med.; Lowe 1993a, p. 4)
• Metadata

  S1537 A.D. 1022 x 1034. Will of Wulfsige, including bequest of land at Wiken to Bury St Edmunds, Bishop Ælfric and, for her life, to Wulfwyn. Bury St Edmunds

  • 1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 50r (s. xiii 2)
  • 2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 19v (s. xiii/xiv; Latin summary)
• Metadata

  S1546b Bounds of Creedy Land, Devon. Exeter (ex Crediton)

  • 1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. a. 2 (S.C. 31346), no. IIa (s. xi med.; BA Facs., no. 28)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. a. 2 (S.C. 31346), no. IIb (s. xv)
• Metadata

  S1552 Bounds of Ewen, Gloucs. Malmesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15667, f. 33r (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 417, f. 22v (s. xiv/xv)
• Metadata

  S1552a Bounds of Littleton on Severn Gloucestershire Malmesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15667, f. 35r-v (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 417, f. 25r (s. xiv/xv)
• Metadata

  S1556 Bounds of Withington, Gloucs. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 181r (s. xi)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 114r (s. xi)
• Metadata

  S1562 Bounds of Fen Stanton, Hunts., with details of fisheries on the Ouse. Rochester

  • 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 161v-162r (s. xii 1)
  • 2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 7v (s. xiv)
• Metadata

  S1564 Boundary between dioceses of Canterbury and Rochester. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 14907, ff. 19v-20r (s. xviii; ex 2)
  • 2. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1370, f. 114r (s. xi)
• Metadata

  S1567 Bounds of Culham, Oxon. Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 25v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, ff. 200v-201r (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S1569 Bounds of Eatun (? Wood Eaton, Oxon.). Abingdon

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, f. 66v (s. xiii in.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 202v (s. xii 2)
• Metadata

  S1575 Bounds of Bremhill, Wilts. Malmesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15667, f. 34v (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 417, f. 24r-v (s. xiv/xv)
• Metadata

  S1576 Bounds of Brinkworth, Wilts. Malmesbury

  • London, British Library, Lansdowne 417, ff. 24v-25r (s. xiv/xv)
  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15667, f. 35r (s. xiii med.)
• Metadata

  S1578 Bounds of Charlton, near Malmesbury, Wilts. Malmesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15667, f. 34v (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 417, f. 24r (s. xiv/xv)
• Metadata

  S1580 Bounds of Dauntsey, Wilts. Malmesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15667, f. 38r (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 417, f. 25r-v (s. xiv/xv)
• Metadata

  S1582 Bounds of Eastcourt, Wilts. Malmesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15667, f. 34r (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 417, f. 23v (s. xiv/xv)
• Metadata

  S1583 Bounds of Grittenham in Brinkworth, Wilts. Malmesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15667, f. 35r (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 417, f. 24v (s. xiv/xv)
• Metadata

  S1584 Bounds of Murcott in Crudwell, Wilts. Malmesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15667, f. 33v (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 417, f. 23r (s. xiv/xv)
• Metadata

  S1585 Bounds of Norton, Wilts. Malmesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15667, ff. 34v-35r (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 417, f. 24v (s. xiv/xv)
• Metadata

  S1586 Bounds of Purton, Wilts. Malmesbury

  • 1. London, British Library, Add. 15667, f. 33r-v (s. xiii med.)
  • 2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 417, ff. 22v-23r (s. xiv/xv)
• Metadata

  S1599 Bounds of Twyford in Norton-and-Lenchwick, Worcs. Evesham

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XXIV, f. 55v (s. xii/xiii; incomplete)
  • 2. London, British Library, Harley 3763, ff. 70v-71r (s. xii)
• Metadata

  S1647 A.D. 1042 x 1066. Nithard, formerly King Edmund's ioculator, to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Walworth, Surrey. Canterbury, Christ Church

  • 1. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, p. 331 (s. xiii)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 223, f. 21r (s. xvi 1)
• Metadata

  S1663 A.D. 955 x 959. King Eadwig to Æthelgeard, his faithful minister; grant of land at Bathingbourne in Godshill, Isle of Wight. Evesham

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XXIV, f. 20r (s. xii/xiii; end erased)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, James 29 (S.C. 3866), p. 41 (s. xvii; incomplete)
• Metadata

  S1664 A.D. 1003. King Æthelred to ?; grant of land at Bengeworth,Worcs. Evesham

  • London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XXIV (s. xii/xiii)
  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XXIV, f. 33v (s. xii/xiii; beginning erased)
• Metadata

  S1803 A.D. 675 x 692. Friduric, princeps of King Æthelred, to St Peter’s, Medeshamstede; grant of land at Breedon (on the Hill), Leics. Peterborough

  • 1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, ff. 44v-45r (s. xii med.)
  • 2. Peterborough, DC., 1, f. 132v (s. xiii med.)
• Metadata

  S1804 A.D. 675 x 692. Æthelred, king (of the Mercians), to Hædda, abbot of Breedon; grant of land at Cedenan Ac (? Cadney, Lincs.). Peterborough

  • 1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, ff. 45v-46r (s. xii med.)
  • 2. Peterborough, DC., 1, f. 133r (s. xiii med.)
• Metadata

  S1805 A.D. 675 x 692. Friduric, princeps, to Abbot Hædda; grant of land at Hrepingas (? Rippingdale, Lincs.). Peterborough

  • 1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, f. 45r-v (s. xii med.)
  • 2. Peterborough, DC., 1, ff. 132v-133r (s. xiii med.)
• Metadata

  S1806 A.D. 675 x 692. Æthelred, king of Mercia, to the minster of Medehamstede; grant of land at Leugttricdun (? Laughterton, Lincs.). Peterborough

  • 1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, f. 41r (s. xii med.)
  • 2. Peterborough, DC., 1, ff. 130v-131r (s. xiii med.)
• Metadata

  S1822 A.D. 657 x 674. Wulfhere. king of Mercia, to Colman, abbot; grant of land at hanbury, Worcs. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 131r (s. xvii)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dugdale 12 (S.C. 6502), p. 503 (s. xvii)
• Metadata

  S1824 A.D. 716 x 757. Æthelbald, king of Mercia, to Eafe, a nun; grant of part of a building and two salt-furnaces in vico emptorio salis (Droitwich, Worcs.). Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 130v (s. xvii)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dugdale 12 (S.C. 6502), p. 503 (s. xvii)
• Metadata

  S1825 A.D. 716 x 757. Æthelbald, king of Mercia, to Henele; grant of land at Hymelmore or Aethilmelmore (? near Himbleton, Worcs.). Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 131r (s. xvii)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dugdale 12 (S.C. 6502), p. 506 (s. xvii)
• Metadata

  S1833 A.D. 844. Ealhhun (Alchun), bishop of Worcester, to the church of Worcester; confirmation of land belonging to the minster at Kempsey, Worcs., and of land at Bredon, Worcs. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 130r (s. xvii)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dugdale 12 (S.C. 6502), p. 503 (s. xvii)
• Metadata

  S1836 A.D. 852. Berhtwulf, king of Mercia, to Edgar, minister; grant of land at Werburgstoke (near Harvington, Worcs.). Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 131r (s. xvii)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dugdale 12 (S.C. 6502), p. 505 (s. xvii)
• Metadata

  S1841 A.D. 925 x 939. King Athelstan to Æthelnoth, minister; grant of land at Moreton in Bredon, Worcs. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 131r (s. xvii)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dugdale 12 (S.C. 6502), p. 505 (s. xvii)
• Metadata

  S1844 A.D. 970. King Edgar to Ely Abbey; grant of land at Bishampton, Worcs. Worcester

  • 1. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 131r (s. xvii)
  • 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dugdale 12 (S.C. 6502), p. 504 (s. xvii)