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A.D. 1042 x 1043. Writ of King Edward declaring that Abbot Ufi is to be entitled to the monastery at Bury St Edmunds and to everything pertaining thereto, and that the monastery is to retain unaltered the freedom granted to it by Cnut and Harthacnut. English and Latin versions

Archive:

Bury St Edmunds

MSS:

1. Cambridge, University Library, Add. 4220, f. 61r (s. xv; English version)
2. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 22v (s. xiii 2; English version)
3. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 30v (s. xiii/xiv; English version)
4. Cambridge, University Library, Add. 4220, f. 61v (s. xv; Latin version)
5. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 22v (s. xiii 2; Latin version)
6. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.4.35, f. 3v (s. xv med.; Latin version; incomplete)
7. Cambridge, University Library, Gg.4.4, f. 96v (s. xv med.; Latin version)

Printed:

K, 868, ex MS 2

Printed and Translated:

Hervey 1907, p. 605; Harmer, Writs, no. 8 (pp. 154-5), ex MSS 2, 5

Comments:

Harmer, Writs, pp. 138-45, 433-5, authentic except perhaps for the last sentence; Hart, ECEE, no. 95, authentic; Sharpe 2003, pp. 270-1, first (surviving) in sequence of writs