S 1137
A.D. 1058 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that the piece of land at Claygate, Surrey, given by Earl Tostig and his wife Leofrun, the king's foster-mother, is to belong to Westminster Abbey. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. XVII (s. xii; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 15)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 465rv (s. xiv)
Printed: Birch 1874, pp. 141-2; Harmer, Writs, no. 93 (p. 358) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 303-6, 512-14, spurious; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, pp. xxi (no. v), xxii, n. 1, forged; Chaplais 1962, on Westminster forger (= 1981, XVIII); Finberg 1972, p. 491 n. 4, spurious; Harvey 1977, p. 358; Gelling, ECTV, no. 349, spurious, but place-name spellings suggest that the forger used Old English sources; BA Facs., p. 11.
Eadward kyng gret Stigand biscop on Wintanceastre/ 7 Wulfwold abbot on Cyrteseiæ 7 Leofwine eorll 7 Rodberd Wimarke sune stallere/ 7 Tosti huskarll 7 ealle mine þeignes on/ Suðreie symle ða ðe beoð to cumene ealsæ ða ðe nu synd freondlice/. 7 ic kyþe eow þæt ic wille/ ðet þæt plott landes æt Clæigate ligge/ nu heonon forð inn to Sancte Petre æt Westmynstre mid ælc ðere þinga þæt þarto birð ðat sind/ mid ðam þriddan treowwe on Kyngeswude on Ditune 7 mid ðam þriddan æcre 7 mid ælc ðere þriddan nytþerflicre note ðe ðar of ariseð/ on wude 7 on felde, on læse 7 on æuesæ, on merisce 7 on mæduen, on weren 7 on wætere, scotfri 7 gafollfri of scire 7 hundrede, of gelde/ 7 of dænegelde 7 of ealles cynnes ðingæ swa full 7 swa forð 7 swa freo swa Tosti eorll 7 Leofrun his wif min fostermoder hit firmest ahten/ 7 ðider inn becwæðen on ece yrfðe. 7 ic ðes fullice geuðe for minre saule 7 for hiere 7 for ealle cwiken 7 for ealle deaden to alesennesse/. 7 ic ann heom ðer ofer sakæ 7 socne, toll 7 team, infangeneðeof blodwite 7 weardwite/ hamsocne 7 forsteall 7 ealle ða oðre gerihte ðe to me belimpað. God eow ealle gehealde, Sancte Petres holde.