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London, British Library, Harley 743
s. xiv med., Bury St Edmunds
Type of MS.: Cartulary
Davis no.: 97
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Comment: 'Reg. J. de Lakynghethe' (d. 1381). Tries to make good the 1327 destruction.
Provenance: Sir E. Bacon 1645. Bp E. Stillingfleet.
Charters contained:
S507, ff. 56v-57r: A.D. 945. King Edmund to the monastery at Baederices wirde; grant of privileges in adjacent land. s. xiv med.
S980, f. 57r-v: A.D. 1021 x 1023. King Cnut to Bury St Edmunds Abbey; grant of privileges and of renders of fish from Welle (Upwell and Outwell, Norfolk) and of eels from Lakenheath, Suffolk. s. xiv med.
S995, ff. 57v-59r: A.D. 1038 x 1039. King Harthacnut to St Edmunds Abbey; grant of privileges. s. xiv med.
S1046, f. 59r: A.D. 1042 x 1066. King Edward to St Edmunds; confirmation of privileges and grant of land at Mildenhall, Suffolk, and eight and a half hundreds at Thingoe, Suffolk. s. xiv med.
S1069, f. 59r: A.D. 1043 x 1044. Writ of King Edward declaring that the land at Mildenhall, Suffolk, and the sokes of the eight and a half Thingoe hundreds are to belong to St Edmunds as fully and completely as his mother (Queen Ælfgifu) possessed them. s. xiv med.
S1079, f. 59v: A.D. 1051 x 1052 or 1053 x 1057. Writ of King Edward declaring that the soke previously granted by him to St Edmunds is now to belong to that house as fully and completely as he himself possessed it. s. xiv med.
S1045, f. 59v: A.D. 1042 x 1065. King Edward to St Edmunds Abbey; confirmation and grant of privileges. s. xiv med.