S 1092
A.D. 1053 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that the land at Fordwich, Kent, previously granted by him to St Augustine's, is now to belong to the monastery with all the rights with which he has granted it to that house. English.
Archive: Canterbury, St Augustine's
MSS: 1. Canterbury, D. &. C., Chart. Ant. F. 47 (s. xv)
2. BL Add. 29437, 118v (s. xvii)
3. BL Add. 53710, 224r (s. xiv)
4. BL Cotton Claud. D. x, 63v (s. xiv)
5. BL Cotton Claud. D. x, 175r (s. xiii)
6. BL Cotton Faust. A. i, 84v (s. xv)
7. London, Lambeth Palace, 419, 123r (s. xiv; incomplete)
8. PRO Ch.R. 20 Edw. II, m. 2
9. PRO Ch.R. 36 Edw. III, m. 7
10. PRO Ch.R. 8 Hen. IV, m. 6
11. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI, pt 3, m. 5
12. PRO Pat. R. 4 Edw. IV, pt 4, no. 29
13. PRO Pat. R. 14 Hen. VII, pt 1 m. 16
Printed: Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2128 ex MS 3; K 854 ex MS 5; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 142 (no. 49) ex MS 5; Turner 1915, i. 144 ex MS 6; Harmer, Writs, no. 39 (p. 200)ex MS 5 etc., with translation; Kelly, St Augustine's, no. 39 ex MSS 1, 5.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 197, 457-9, authentic; Sparks and Tatton-Brown 1987, p. 203, on estate history; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 135-6, probably authentic.
G. BL Cotton Claudius D. x, 175r: copy, s. xiii.2
Rubric: Donatio domini Eadwardi regis de Fordwico.
Eadward cyng gret Stigande arceb' 7 Harold eorl 7 Osweard 7 ealle mine þegenas on Cent freonlice, 7 ic cyðe eow þæt ic eom þæs gecnawe þæt ic geuðe Criste 7 sce Augustine 7 þan halgan þær binnan swa micel landes binnan Fordwic for minre saule swa ic me sylf þer hafde, swa full 7 swa forð swa it me sylfan on honde stod on eallan þingan. Nu wille ic þat hit licge into þan halgan minstre, eall swa ic hit ær þider in geuðe, 7 ic nelle geþafian þat ænig man mine gyefe geutige, 7 ic wille habban fullne dom of þam menn þe mine swutelinge awængnian wolde þe ic þer to gegyefen hafde.