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A.D. 1049. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Westminster Abbey the estates of Datchworth and Watton-at-Stone, Herts., as fully and completely as Ælfwynn the nun held them of the monastery and committed them to Abbot Edwin and the monks, and as King Edgar granted them to the monastery, and as they were adjudged in (the assembly of) the nine shires at Wendlebury (? Wandlebury, Cambs.). English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 107r (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 227r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 826 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 298 (no. 17) ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 79 (p. 346) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 315-16, 501-4, authenticity doubtful, may be interpolated, must belong to 1049; Hart, ECEE, no. 73, authentic, suggests that Wendlebury is Wandlebury near Cambridge; Gelling, ECTV, no. 182, citing Harmer, may be interpolated, Wendelbury in Oxon. is equally likely; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, status uncertain; Harvey 1977, p. 346; Kennedy 1985, p. 185, on shire-meeting, agrees with Wandlebury identification; Wormald 1988, no. 87; Kennedy 1995, p. 143 n. 50.
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