S 1139
A.D. 1065 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given land at Launton, Oxon., to Westminster Abbey. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 103v-104r (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 275r (s, xiv)
Printed: K 865 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 297 (no. 8) ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 2 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 95 (no. 360) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 324, 515, authentic; PN Oxon., i. 228; Harvey 1977, p. 356; Gelling, ECTV, no. 302, authentic; Blair 1994, pp. 106, 195 n. 76, on addressee and date.
Eadward kyngc gret Wulwi biscop 7 Gyrþ eorl 7 ealle mine þeignes on Oxenfordescire freondlice. 7 ic kiþe eow þæt ic habbe gegifon Langtun Criste 7 Seinte Petre into Westmunstre/ mid saca 7 mid socne, mid tolle 7 mid teame 7 infangenan þeofe 7 on/ eallan þingan swa full 7 swa forð swa hit me silfan on hande stod. 7 ic nelle geþafian þæt ænig man þær on ænig onstingc/ habbe buton se abbot 7 þæ gebroðra þær binnan. God eow gehealde.