S 1066
A.D. 1053 x 1055 or 1058 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that Abbot Ordric and all the community of Abingdon minster are to possess the hundred of Hormer, Berks., in perpetuity. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 113r (s. xiii; both versions)
2. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 132r (s. xii; both versions)
Printed: K 840; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 517 (no. 13), English only; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 465; Earle, p. 342; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 48, Latin only; Harmer, Writs, no. 5 (p. 132) ex MS 2, with translation; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 149.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 123-31, 429, spurious, but may be based on authentic writ; Stenton 1971, pp. 499, 501, cited; PN Berks., ii. 431; Gelling, ECTV, no. 134, interpolated; Keynes 1980, p. 143 n. 210, spurious; Wormald 1995, pp. 128, 129, likely to be a forgery, exclusionary clause extremely suspicious; Wormald 1996, p. 123; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 149, deeply suspicious.
C. BL Cotton Claudius C. ix, 132r: copy, s. xii
Rubric: Carta regis Eadwardi de hundredo de Hornimere.
D. BL Cotton Claudius B. vi, 113r: copy, s. xiii
Rubric: Carta regis Edwardi de hundredo de Hornimere.
Eadward cyninc gret Hereman bisceop 7 Harold eorl 7 Godric 7 ealle his þegenas on Bearrucscyre freondlic, 7 ic cyðe eow þæt Ordric abbud 7 eal þæt hired on Abbendunes mynstre be minre unne 7 gife frigelice habban 7 ealdan Hornemeres hundred on hyre agenre and ealde on ecere worulde, ( ) swa þæt nan scyrgerefe oððe motgerefe þar habban æni socne oððe gemot buton þes abbudes agen hæse 7 unne.