S 1117
A.D. 1042 x 1044. Writ of King Edward declaring that the burh at Wennington, Essex, with the 4 hides belonging to it and the church and land æt thære lea, is to belong to Westminster Abbey as fully and completely as ever Ætsere Swearte and his wife Ælfgyth owned them and gave them to the abbey with his consent. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. Lost
2. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 108r (s. xiii)
Printed: Madox 1702, p. 36 (no. 60) ex MS 1; K 870 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 299 (no. 21) ex MS 2; Neufeldt 1907, no. 15; Harmer, Writs, no. 73 (p. 340) ex Madox, with translation.
Comments: Madox 1792, p. 36 n., refers to a red wax seal, three inches wide; Harmer, Writs, pp. 301, 492-4, probably not fully authentic in present form, may be of late 11th-century date; Hart, ECE, no. 50, authentic basis, the land æt thære lea may lie in Aveley, Essex, the adjacent parish; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, dubious; Harvey 1977, p. 344.
Eadward kyng gret Ælfward biscop 7 Leofcild scirgerefan 7 ealle mine þeignas on Eastsexan frendlice. Ic cyðe eow þæt ic wille þæt se/ byrig æt Winintune 7 feower hidan landes þær to mid þære cyrice 7 mid þære cyricsocne 7 mid ælce ðære þinga/ þe þær to gebyrað 7 mid ðam lande æt þære lea liggen into Westmynstre to ðære muneka bigleofan swa full 7 swa forð swa Ætsere Swearte 7 his wif Ælfið hy fyrmest ahten 7 ðider inn gefon 7 ic ðes fullice geuðe. And ic ann þæt Sancte Peter habbe þær ofer saca 7 socna, toll 7 team, infangeneþeof 7 fulne freodom on eallum ðingum swa full 7 forð swa he fyrmest hæfoð on ænigum stede þær he oðer land hefð. For ðam ic nelle geðafian þæt ænig mann undo ða gyfe þe ic ðider inn geunnen habbe oððe þæt ðer ænig mann ænigne onstyng habbe on ænigum ðingum oððe on ænigne timan buton se abbud 7 þa gebroðra to ðes mynstres nytþærflicre neode. God eow gehealde 7 Sanctes Petres holde.