S 1047
A.D. 1042 x 1066. King Edward to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Chartham, Kent, and Walworth, Surrey, and confirmation of land at Sandwich, Eastry, Folkestone, Thanet, Adisham, Ickham, Chartham, Godmersham, Westwell, East Chart, the other Chart, Berwick, Brook, Warehorne, Appledore, Mersham, Orpington, Preston, Meopham, Cooling, Farningham, Hythe, Hollingbourne, Farleigh, Peckham, all in Kent; at Patching and Wootton in Sussex; at Walworth, Merstham, Cheam, and Horsley in Surrey; at Southchurch, Laver, Milton (Hall) in Prittlewell, Lawling in Latchingdon, Bocking, St Osyth and Stisted in Essex; at Hadleigh and Monks Eleigh, Suffolk; at Monks Risborough in Bucks.; and at Newington and Britwell Prior, Oxon. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: English
1. BL Cotton Claud. A. iii, 6v (s xi; with erasures)
2. Bodleian, Gough Berks. 20, 13rv (s. xviii)Latin note
3. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, 201v (s. xii)
4. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. I, 58v-59r (s. xiii2)
5. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. P, 26rv (s. xii)
6. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 331 (s. xiii)
7. Bodleian, Tanner 223, 20v (s. xvi)
Printed: English
K 896; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 100 (no. 10); Robertson, Charters, no. 95 (pp. 180-2), with translation, pp. 181-3.Latin
Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2224 ex MS 5; Hart, ECEE, pp. 73-4 ex MS 6; Fleming 1997, pp. 145-6 (no. 76) ex MSS 5, 6.
Comments: Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 326-7, on place-names; PN Oxon, i. 105-6, 132; Robertson, Charters, pp. 427-30; Kissan 1939, p. 287; Harmer, Writs, p. 175 n. 5, not authentic in present form but may contain authentic material; Ker, Catalogue, no. 185 (p. 240), on MS 1; Hart, ECEE, no. 117, grant of Chartham probably authentic, the remainder a post-Conquest addition; Whitelock 1969, p. 113, dubious; Barlow 1970, p. 135, doubtful, cited with reference to royal style; Hart, ECE, no. 54, authentic basis; Rumble 1976, p. 167, on a place-name form (Merstham); Gelling, ECTV, nos 301, 344, spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 113 n. 92, spurious; Brooks 1984, p. 258 n. 14, p. 388 nn. 140, 143, on the scribe of MS 1.
+ Ic Eadwerd cyng 7 Englalandes wealdend under Criste þan heofenlican cyninge geann þæs landes æt Certham into Cristes cyrcean for mine sawle þan hirede to fosterlande þe þærinne Gode þeowað . 7 ic eom þæs mynstres mund 7 upheald . 7 nelle geþafian þæt ænig mann ge?tige ænig þara landa þe mid rihte into þan halgan mynstre gebyrige . 7 ic wille þæt ælc þara landa þe on mines fæder dæge læg into Cristes cyrcean . wære hit kynges gife wære hit bisceopes . wære hit eorles . wære hit þegenas . eall ic wille þæt ælces ma'n'nes gife stande . 7 ic nelle geþafian þæt ænig mann þis awende . 7 gif ænig mann si swa dyrstig . oþþe þærto geþwærlæce þæt ænig þara lande þe lið into Cristes cyrcean þanon ge?tige . si he Iudas gefera þe Crist belæwade . 7 þe þisne cwyde æfre awende . þe ic mid minre agenre hand on þissere Cristes béc Criste betæhte on uppan Cristes weofod . drihten fordo hine ? on ecnesse. Amen.
Ðis synd þara landa nama . Sandwic . Eastryge . Tænet . Edesham . Ieoccham . ........ Certaham . ........ Godmæresham . ........ Wylle . East Cert . 7 oþer Cert . Berwica . Werhornas . Apuldra . Merseham . Orpedingtun . ........ Preostatun . Meapaham . Culingas . Frinningaham . Holingaburnan . Fernlege . ........ Peccham.
On Suðsexan . Pæccingas . Wudutun. On Suðrian . Wealawurð . Mersetham . Ceigham . Horslege; On Estsexan . Suðcyrcean . Middeltun . Lællingc . ........ Boccing.
On Eastenglum . Hæðleh . Illaleh; Innon Buccinghamscire be Cilternes efese . Hrysebyrgan.
Innon Oxenafordscire . Niwantun . Brutuwylle.
........ represents an erasure in the MS.