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c. A.D. 1051. Writ of King Edward declaring that St Edmunds inland is to be exempt from payment of heregeld and from every other render. English

Archive:

Bury St Edmunds

MSS:

1. Cambridge, University Library, Ee.3.60, f. 127r (s. xiv med.)
2. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 23r (s. xiii 2)
3. Cambridge, University Library, Gg.4.4, f. 102v (s. xv med.)
4. Cambridge, University Library, Gg.4.4, f. 271r (s. xv med.)
5. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 31r (s. xiii/xiv)
6. London, British Library, Harley 638, f. 26r (s. xiv)
7. London, Public Record Office, C 52, 15, no. 3 (s. xiii)
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 66, 2 Hen. VI, pt 2, m. 38
14. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 2 Edw. IV, pt 6, m. 21
15. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 6, no. 9
16. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 14, no. 10
17. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 53, no. 5
18. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gough Cambridge 22 (S.C. 17772), f. 13v (s. xiv 2)

Printed:

K, 879, ex MS 2; Hervey 1925, i. 296, ex MS 1; Conway Davies 1957, p. 88, ex MS 7

Printed and Translated:

Harmer, Writs, no. 15 (p. 158), ex MS 6

Comments:

Davis 1909, pp. 419-20; Harmer, Writs, pp. 139, 439-40, authentic; Hart, ECEE, no. 114, authentic; Faith 1997, p. 37, on immunity; Sharpe 2003, p. 280, first (surviving) in sequence of writs