A.D. 1062 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Westminster Abbey the land at Perton, Staffs., as fully and completely as he himself held it. English

Archive:

Westminster

MSS:

1. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. M. XII (s. xi; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 12; Barlow 1970, pl. 5, opp. p. 104; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, pl. 23 b)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. M. XIII (s. xii; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 11)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, f. 109v (s. xiii)
4. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 648r (s. xiv)

Printed:

K, 842, ex MS 3; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 300 (no. 26), ex MS 3; Birch 1874, pp. 146-7, ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 20 a, b, ex MSS 1, 2, 3

Translated:

Brown 1984, p. 132 (no. 159)

Printed and Translated:

Harmer, Writs, no. 96 (pp. 360-1), ex MS 1

Comments:

Harmer, Writs, pp. 324-6, 516, MS 1 probably an original writ; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, p. xxii n. 1, MS 2, forged, scribe of MS 1 perhaps associated with Westminster scriptorium; Chaplais 1966a, pp. 169-70, on protocol (= 1973, p. 54); Hart, ECNE, no. 97, original; Harvey 1977, p. 357; Keynes 1988, p. 215, queries suggested Westminster affiliation of scribe of MS 1.

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