S 1154

A.D. 1053 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has bequeathed Portland, Dorset, and everything belonging thereto to the Old Minster at Winchester. English

Archive:

Winchester, Old Minster

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 7r (s. xii med.)

Printed:

K, 891

Printed and Translated:

Harmer, Writs, no. 112 (p. 400)

Comments:

Stevenson 1896, p. 732 n; Harmer 1938, pp. 341-2, 351-3; Harmer, Writs, pp. 385-7, 526, many questionable features; Finberg, ECW, no. 629, spurious; Hart 1970a, p. 24 (no. 6), spurious, late insertion in MS; Keynes 1980, p. 143 n. 209, dubious

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    • Ædward kyning grett ælle mine wytan gehadode 7 lewede. ænd ic cyˇe eow ˇæt ic hebbe bicwe∂en Portland 7 eall ˇæt ∂erto bily∂ in to Gealden Mynstre on Wyncheastre Gode to lofe 7 Sancte Petre 7 Sancte Suuthune ˇam monekan to scrudan 7 to fodan for mynre sawle 7 for ealre mynra maga 7 for ælre ∂ere kynga sawle ˇe æfter me ˇyses kynyngriches wælde∂. La hwo ∂isne cwidan ondon wille/ hebbe he wi∂ Godd gemene on domes deig. ∂yss sint ˇera manna naman ˇe ætt ˇysan cwidan weren, Eadgi∂ se hlefdie, Stigand se archebiscop, Harold eorl, Rengebold cancheler.