S 1109
Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Ramsey Abbey judicial and financial rights and shipwreck and what is cast up by the sea at Brancaster and Ringstead, the soke within Bichamdic (cf. S 1108), the market at Downham, Norfolk, and judicial and financial rights in every shire in which St Benedict of Ramsey has land. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Ramsey
MSS: English
1. Huntingdon, Cambs., County R.O., SM27/465 (Acc. 2244) (s. xiv; original Inspeximus)
2. Huntingdon, Cambs., County R.O., SM 27/465 (Acc. 970) (s. **; ex 1)
3. BL Add. 4936, 179v-180r (s. xviii)
4. BL Add. Ch. 33686 (s. xvi)
5. BL Cotton Otho B. xiv, 263v (s. xiv)
6. PRO Ch.R. 8 Edw. III, no. 29
7. PRO Pat. R. 2 Ric. II, pt 2, m. 23
8. PRO Pat. R. 4 Edw. IV, pt 4, m. 4
9. PRO Conf. R. 18, no. 2 (s. xv)
10. PRO Conf. R. 30, no. 4 (s. xvi)
11. PRO E. 164/28, 59v-60r (s. xiv)
12. PRO E. 164/28, 170rv (s. xiv)Latin
13. PRO E. 164/28, 60r (s. xiv)
14. PRO E. 164/28, 158v (s. xiv)
15. Bodleian, Rawl. B. 333, 21r (s. xiv1)
16. Bodleian, Tanner 12, 42v (s. xvi; incomplete)
Printed: Gale, Scriptores XV, ii. 454 ex MS 14; K 853 ex MSS 3, 14; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 560 (no. 10) ex MS 3; Thorpe, pp. 421-3 ex MSS 3, 14; Macray, Chron. Ramsey, pp. 162-3 ex MS 14; Hart and Lyons, Ramsey Cart., i. 218-22, ii. 80-1 ex MSS 11, 12, 13, 14; Earle, pp. 343-6 ex MS 5; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 50 ex K; Harmer, Writs, no. 61 (pp. 259-61) ex MSS 6, 15.
Translated: Harmer 1938, pp. 358-9.
Comments: Essays, pp. 50-1; Harmer 1938, pp. 356-63, spurious; Harmer, Writs, pp. 249-52, 473-8, spurious, address points to a date 1057/8 x 1066, while the witnesses are appropriate for 1045 x 1053; Hart, ECEE, no. 135, spurious; Abels 1988, p. 244 n. 50; Pelteret 1995, pp. 277-8, 282.
Eadward cyng gret/ Stigand ercebiscop 7 ægelmær biscop 7 Gyrð eorl 7 Toli scirreue 7 ealle his þeines inne Norðfolce 7 inne Suðfolce 7 ealle his oðre witen ofer eall ængleland hadede 7 leawede freondlice. 7 ic cyðe eow þæt ic habbe gegeofen Criste 7 Sancte Marie 7 Sancte Benedicite 7 ælfwine abbot in to Ramesege saca 7 socna, tol 7 team 7 infangenþeof fihtwite 7 ferdwite, forestall 7 hamsocne, griðbryce 7 scipbryce 7 þa sæupwarp on eallan þingen æt Bramcæstre 7 æt Ringstyde swa wel 7 swa freolice swa ic hit me seolf betst habbe bi ða særime ahwær in Engelande 7 ealle þa gerihte þa ic me seolf þær ahte. 7 ic wylle þæt seo socne wiðinnen Bicchamdic ligce in to Ramesege to Sancte Benedihte on eallen þingen swa full 7 swa forð swa ic heo me seolf ahte 7 ealle þa gerihte þa æni king mæi ahen 7 ealle þa men þa beon motwurði ferdwurði/ 7 faldwurði in þæt oðer healfe hundred swa hwilc man swa þa men ahe Sancte Marie 7 Sanctus Benedictus 7 se abbot 7 þa gebroðra in to Ramesege habben þa socne on eallen þingen ofer heom 7 þæt market æt Dunham bi waetere 7 bi lande mid inlade 7 mid utlade 7 mid eallen þan gerihte þe þær to hereð swa wel 7 swa freolice/ swa ic hit me seolf betst ahte. 7 ic nelle geþafien þæt æniman þis gelytlige mid ænige þinge. 7 in ælcer scire þær Sanctus Benedictus hafð land inne his saca 7 his socne, tol 7 team 7 infangenþeof wiðinne burhe 7 wiðuten 7 on ælce styde be lande 7 be strande, be wude 7 be felde swa hwylc man swa þa socne ahe Sanctus Benedictus habbe his freodom on eallen þingen swa wel 7 swa freolice swa ic hit me seolf betst ahe ahwær in Engelande. 7 ealle þa gyltes þa belimpeð to mine kinehelme inne Iol 7 inne Easterne 7 inne þa hali wuca æt gangdagas on ealle þingan al swa ic heo me seolf ahe 7 tolfreo ofer ealle Engleland wiðinne burhe 7 wiðutan æt gæres cepinge 7 on æfrice styde be wætere 7 be lande. 7 ic forbeode Godes forbode 7 min þæt nan man þis geofe ne lytlige ne awende. 7 gif æni man hit awansi mid æfrænige þinge of þan þe ic habbe her geunnen on þeosen gewrite si he gesyndred fram Criste 7 fram eallen his halgan, Amen. þis writ wæs gemaced æt Windlesoren on feorðe Easterdæi on Eadgiðe gewitnysse þære cwene 7 Godwines eorles 7 Haroldes eorles.