A.D. 1065 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Abbot Baldwin a moneyer within Bury St Edmunds. 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. 4 (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:

Battely 1745, p. 134, ex MS 2; K, 875, ex MS 6; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 138 (no. 8), ex MS 2; Thorpe, p. 415; Hervey 1925, i. 296, ex MS 1; Conway Davies 1957, p. 88, ex MS 7

Printed and Translated:

Harmer, Writs, no. 25 (p. 165), ex MS 7

Comments:

Davis 1909, p. 420; Harmer, Writs, pp. 150-1, 444-6, authentic; Hart, ECEE, no. 119, authentic; Chaplais 1966, p. 19, probably drafted at Bury (= 1981, XV p. 19); Gransden 1985, p. 12; Pelteret 1995, pp. 281-2; Sharpe 2003, p. 258, first (surviving) in sequence of writs

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    • Eadward cyng gret æigelmer biscop 7 Geor∂ eorl 7 ealle mine ˇegenas on æstengle freondlice. 7 ic cy∂e eou ˇæt ic habbe geunnen Baldwine abbote onne menetere wi∂ inne Seint Eadmundes byrig al swa freolice on ealle ˇing to habben al swa me mine on hande stonden ower on enig minre burge alre freolukeost. God seo eow alre freond.