S 1148
A.D. 1065 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Westminster Abbey the estate at Islip where he was born and a half hide at Marston, Oxon. He directs his kinsman Wigod of Wallingford to transfer the land to the abbey on his behalf. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 103rv (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 270r (s. xiv)
3. Bodleian, James 24, p. 54 (s. xvii; incomplete)
Printed: Kennet 1818, i. 68; K 862 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 297 (no. 7) ex MS 1; Thorpe, p. 368; Neufeldt 1907, no. 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 104 (pp. 368-9) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 336-7, 522-3, mixture of authentic and spurious material, no reason to doubt instruction to Wigod, some imitation of Anglo-Saxon script in MS 2; PN Oxon., i. 181, 221; Barlow 1970, p. 29 n. 2, some unsatisfactory features, but probably has an authentic basis; PN Berks., ii. 535; Harvey 1977, p. 356; Gelling, ECTV, no. 304, citing Harmer, interpolated; Blair 1994, pp. 110, 196 n. 97.
Eadward king gret Wulsi biscop 7 Guirð eorll 7 alle mine þeingnes on Oxenfordescire / freondlice. 7 ic kiþe eow þat ic habbe gegefen Criste 7 Sancte Petre into Westmunstre ðet cotlif ic wæs geboran inne be naman Gihtslepe 7 ane healfe hide æt Mersce scotfre 7 gafolfreo mid eallan ðam ðingan þæ ðer to belimpað on wude 7 on felde, on mæde 7 on watre, mid ciricen 7 mid ciricsocnen swa full 7 swa forð 7 swa freo swa hit me siluan on hande stod 7 swa swa ælgyfu Imme min moder on minre frumbirde dæiæge/ to forme gyfe hit me gæf 7 to gecinde becwæð. 7 ic an heom þer ofer saca 7 socna, toll 7 team 7 infangeneþeof 7 blodwite 7 weardwite 7 hamsocne 7 forstealL, griðbrice 7 mundbrice 7 ealle ða gerihte þe to me belimpað. Nu grete ic wel mine leofne mæi Wigod on Wallingeforde. 7 ic beode ðe þat ðu on minre stede beride þas land þam hælge to hande for ic nelle nateshwon geðafian þæt þær ænig mann ænige onsting habbe on ænigum þingum oððe on ænigum/ timan butan se abbot 7 þa gebroðra to þæs munstres nitwurðlicre/ þearfe. 7 hwa se ðas ælmesse holdlice healde healde hine God 7 Godes moder on ece blisse. 7 hwa swa hio awende sieo he awænded fram Gode to þare hellware stiþe pinnesse buton he hit on ðessere wrlde/ þe stiðliker gebete. God eow ealle gehealde 7 Sancte Petres holde.