S 1514

c. A.D. 855. Will of Dunn bequeathing a haga and land at Rochester to his wife for her life, with reversion to St Andrew's (Rochester). English

Archive:

Rochester

MSS:

1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), f. 140r-v (s. xii 1)

Printed:

Hearne, Textus Roffensis, p. 103; K, 276; Thorpe, p. 478; B, 486 (2); Earle, pp. 337-8; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 21; Campbell, Rochester, no. 23

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 89 (p. 526)

Printed and Translated:

Robertson, Charters, no. 9 (pp. 14-17)

Comments:

Robertson, Charters, pp. 276-7; Finberg, ECW, p. 202, authentic; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, pp. 233-4, cited; Wormald 2001, p. 266, on hereditary possession

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    • + In nomine domini . Dunn hafað þas boc gesald his wife 7 ðæt land þe þæran gewriten is an Godes est . ðæt hio hæbbe hire dæg 7 his bruce . 7 efter hire dæge . geselle hit on ðæs halgan apostoles naman Sancte Andreas ðam hirode \in/ mid unnan Godes 7 his ha\l/gena for unc buta 7 ealle uncre eldran butan hi hit mit unnan hiredes ofgan to rihtan gafole swa swa hyt hy geðingian magan . butan ælcen bræde . oððe beswice . 7 hy ðonne se hired hit geearnian mid heora godcundnæsse ofer twelf monoð . 7 stande simle mid cwide seo boc on ðæs hiredes handa.
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    • + In nomine domini . Dunn hafa∂ ˇas boc gesald his wife 7 ∂æt land ˇe ˇæran gewriten is an Godes Est . ∂æt hio hæbbe hire dæg 7 his bruce . 7 efter hire dæge . geselle hit on ∂æs