S 1095
A.D. 1058 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Chertsey Abbey and to Abbot Wulfwold the hundred of Godley, Surrey, and that the abbot is to have judicial and financial rights over all his men and over his lands. English.
Archive: Chertsey
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Vitell. A. xiii, 50r (s. xiii)
2. PRO Chart. Ant. R. 4, no. 8 (s. xiii)
3. BL Harley 84, 41v (s. xvii; ex 2)
Printed: K 849 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl., i. 429 (no. 6) ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 42 (p. 210) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 203-5, 460-1, authenticity in doubt; Stenton 1971, p. 501, cited; Gelling, ECTV, no. 348, spurious; Wormald 1995, p. 128, exclusionary clause suspicious.
Eadward cing gret Stigand arcebisceop 7 Harold eorl 7 mine sirrefen 7 ealle mine þeines freondlice. 7 ic kiðe eow þæt ic habbe geunnen Criste 7 Sancte Petre into Certeseige 7 þan abbot Wlwolde þæt hundred of Goddelie swo freo 7 swo forð swo ænig is freost þe beoð on mine onwealde mid ealle þinge þe to me beolimpað on wde 7 on felde. 7 ic wille þæt se abbod beo his saca wurðe 7 his soca 7 tol 7 tem 7 infangenetheof 7 griðbruche 7 forestel 7 hamsoca 7 flemeneformthe binne porte 7 buten beo lande 7 beo strande ofer ealle his man 7 ofer his lande.