S 1122
A.D. 1045 x 1049. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Westminster Abbey the land at Aldenham, Herts., as fully and completely as Earl Sihtric held it of the monastery and committed it to Abbot Ælfric and the community, and as Abbot Ordbriht held it for the monastery in the days of King Offa and King Cenwulf, and as King Edgar in his charter confirmed it to the abbey. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 106rv (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 185v-186r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 827 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 298 (no. 15) ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 9 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 78 (p. 345) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 313-15, 499-501, probably forged in connection with a dispute which arose soon after the Conquest; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, dubious; Gelling, ECTV, no. 181, spurious; Keynes 1994/1, p. 65, on Earl Sihtric; Pelteret 1995, pp. 313-14, on meaning of thiowlice; cf. S 124, 774.
Eadward cingc gret Eadnoð biscop 7 Beorn eorl 7 alle mine þeignas on Hertfordscire freondlice. 7 ic cyðe eow þæt ic habbe gegiuen Criste 7 Sancte Peter into Westmunstre þæt land æt Ældenham mid saca 7 mid socna, mid tolle 7 mid teame 7 infangeneþeofe swa full 7 swa forð swa Sihtric eorl of þan munstre þiowlice hit hyold 7 ætforen gewitnesse mid halra tunge Ælfrice þam abbot 7 þam gebroðran up betæhte 7 swa swa hit stod Ordbrihte abbot on hande into þam minstre beo Offie 7 be Cenwulfes cinges dagum 7 swa swa Ædgar cinge on his gewrite þider in hit gefestnode. 7 ic nella nateswan geþafian þæt þar ænig mann ænine onstynge þær ofer habbe on ænige þingan oððer on ænige timan buton se abbot 7 þa munecas to Sancte Petres neode. God eow gehealde, Sancte Petres holde.