S 1084

A.D. 1065 x 1066. Writ of King Edward confirming to the monastery at Bury St Edmunds the sokes of the eight and a half hundreds (after the appointment of Baldwin as abbot of Bury). English

Archive:

Bury St Edmunds

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 49 (s. xi med.; BM Facs., iv. 39; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, pl. 2)
2. Cambridge, University Library, Ee.3.60, f. 127r (s. xiv med.)
3. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 22v (s. xiii 2)
4. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.4.35, f. 23v (s. xv med.; incomplete)
5. Cambridge, University Library, Gg.4.4, f. 102v (s. xv med.)
6. Cambridge, University Library, Gg.4.4, f. 271r (s. xv med.)
7. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 30v (s. xiii/xiv)
8. London, British Library, Harley 638, f. 26r (s. xiv)
9. London, Public Record Office, C 52, 15, no. 2 (s. xiii)
10. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 8 Edw. II, no. 11
11. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 4 Edw. III, no. 58
12. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 7-8 Ric. II, no. 11
13. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 1 Hen. IV, pt 2, no. 2
14. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 1 Hen. V, pt 2, no. 6
15. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 2 Hen. VI, pt 2, m. 38
16. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 2 Edw. IV, pt 6, m. 21
17. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 6, no. 9
18. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 14, no. 10
19. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 53, no. 5
20. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gough Cambridge 22 (S.C. 17772), f. 13v (s. xiv 2)

Printed:

K, 874, ex MS 1; Hervey 1925, i. 295; Conway Davies 1957, p. 87, ex MS 9

Printed and Translated:

Harmer, Writs, no. 24 (pp. 164-5), ex MS 1

Comments:

Harmer, Writs, pp. 147-8, 443-4, authentic, MS 1 contemporary; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, the text is apparently free from any suspicious features; Chaplais 1966a, p. 175 and n. 24, MS 1 probably written at Bury (= 1973, p. 60 n. 124); Hart, ECNE, p. 385, original; Gransden 1985, p. 12; Keynes 1988, p. 215 n. 181, queries Bury identity of scribe of MS 1; Dumville 1993, p. 37 n. 140, cited; Sharpe 2003, pp. 265-6, part of sequence of writs; Thompson 2006, p. 110, on script

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    • Eadweard cyningc gret ægelmær bisceop 7 Gyr∂ eorl 7 Tolig 7 ealle mine ˇegenas on Su∂follce freondlice. 7 ic cy∂e eow ˇæt ic wylle ˇæt ˇa healf nygo∂e hundreda socne ligce innto ˇam halgan mynstre innto Sancte Eadmundes byrig mines mæges swa full 7 swa for∂ swa ælfric Wihtgares sunu hig minre meder to handa bewiste. 7 heo sy∂∂an me sylfan on handa stod on eallan ˇingan 7 ic hig ˇider inn geu∂e mid ælc ˇæra ˇinga/ ˇæs ˇe ˇær mid rihte to gebyra∂ mid fyrdwite 7 fyhtwite 7 æbære ˇeof 7 gri∂bryce 7 foresteall 7 hamsocne. 7 ic bidde eow eallan ˇæt ge beon Baldewine abbote on fultume ˇæt he mote beon ælc ˇæra gerihta wur∂e ˇæs ˇe he ah ˇær of rihtlice to habbene for minan lufan. 7 ic ne eom gecnawe ˇæt ic ænigean menn geafe ˇa socne ˇanon ut ˇe ic hig ær ˇider inn geofrode. 7 gyf ænig mann sy ˇæt wylle ænig ˇæra socna him to handa drægen 7 segce ˇæt ic hig ær him geunnan sceolde ic wylle ˇæt he cume beforan me mid his sweotelunge 7 do me gecnawe hwær ic hig him ær geu∂e ˇæt nan oˇer ne sy.