S 1240
A.D. 1061 x 1066. Writ of Queen Edith declaring that Bishop Giso is to have the land at Milverton, Somerset, as fully and completely as she herself possessed it. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Wells
MSS: Wells, D. & C., Liber Albus I, 18r (s. xiii; both versions)
Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., pp. 163-4; K 917; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 288 (no. 10); Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 70; Harmer, Writs, no. 70 (pp. 283-4), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 274, 490, authenticity reasonably certain; Finberg, ECW, no. 541, authentic; Crosby 1994, pp. 48-50, on background; Kennedy 1995, p. 156 n. 99, cited with reference to legal background; Keynes 1997, pp. 238-9, 257, may be dated 1065 x 1066, discusses background.
Eadgyð se hlauedige gret Harold erl mine broðar & Touid & ealle ure þeyena on Sumerseatan freondliche. & ic cyðe eow þæt ic wylle þæt Gyso biscop beo þaes londes wurðe æt Milferton swo full & swo forð swo hit me selfen æn honde stod to þan forewarden þæt weo geworht habbað. & gyf þær hwa ænig land habbe hut biridan oððe geboht of þan þe þar mid richte into gehyrað ic wylle þat man hyt læte in ongean cuman & spece se mann wið þone mann þe him ær land sealde.