A.D. 1043 x 1044. Writ of King Edward declaring that the land at Mildenhall, Suffolk, and the sokes of the eight and a half Thingoe hundreds are to belong to St Edmunds as fully and completely as his mother (Queen Ælfgifu) possessed them. English

Archive:

Bury St Edmunds

MSS:

1. Cambridge, University Library, Add. 4220, f. 61r (s. xv)
2. Cambridge, University Library, Ee.3.60, f. 127r (s. xiv med.)
3. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 22r (s. xiii 2)
4. Cambridge, University Library, Gg.4.4, f. 102v (s. xv med.)
5. Cambridge, University Library, Gg.4.4, f. 271r (s. xv med.)
6. London, British Library, Harley 638, f. 26r (s. xiv)
7. London, British Library, Harley 743, f. 59r (s. xiv med.)
8. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 8 Edw. II, no. 11
9. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 4 Edw. III, no. 58
10. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 7-8 Ric. II, no. 11
11. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 1 Hen. IV, pt 2, no. 2
12. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 1 Hen. V, pt 2, no. 6
13. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 6, m. 38
14. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 14, m. 21
15. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 53, no. 9
16. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 2 Hen. VI, pt 2, no. 10
17. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 2 Edw. IV, pt 6, no. 5
18. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gough Cambridge 22 (S.C. 17772), f. 13v (s. xiv 2)

Printed:

K, 832, ex MS 3; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 44; Hervey 1925, i. 296, ex MS 2

Printed and Translated:

Hervey 1907, pp. 610-11; Harmer, Writs, no. 9 (pp. 154-5), ex MS 6

Comments:

Davis 1909, pp. 418-19; Harmer, Writs, pp. 145-7, 435-7, authentic; Hart, ECEE, no. 106, authentic; Sharpe 2003, pp. 262-3, first (surviving) in sequence of writs

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    • Eædward cyng gret Grymkytel biscop 7 ælfwine 7 ælfric 7 ealle mine ˇegenas on Su∂folce freondlice. & ic cy∂e eou ˇæt ic wille ˇæt ˇæt land æt Mildenhale 7 ˇa nigen half hundreda socne in to ˝inghogy licgce in to Sancte Eædmunde mid sace 7 mid socne swa ful 7 swa for∂ swa hit minre meder on hande stod. & ic nelle ge∂afian ˇæt heom ænig mann ætbrede ænig ˇare ˇinga ˇæs ˇe ic heom ær geu∂e.