A.D. 1054 x 1057. Godiva (Godgifu), wife of Leofric, to St Mary's, Stow; grant of land at Newark, Fledborough, Notts.; Brampton in Torksey, and Marton in Well Wapentake, Lincs., with papal confirmation. Latin

Archive:

Eynsham

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Harley 258, f. 3v (s. xvii)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 55 (S.C. 4197), f. 12r (s. xvii)
3. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dugdale 21 (S.C. 6511), f. 3v (s. xvii)
4. Oxford, Christ Church, Chapter Library, 'Eynsham Cartulary', f. 10v (s. xii ex.)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 263; K, 818; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 14 (no. 6); Salter, Eynsham Cart., pp. 31-2

Comments:

Stevenson in Salter, Eynsham Cart., p. 31 n. 1, spurious; Oleson 1955, p. 155, spurious; Hart, ECEE, no. 156, spurious, but list of estates may be based on a reliable tradition of Godgifu's endowment of Stow; Hart, ECNE, no. 117, spurious; Sawyer 1998, p. 234