S 1124
A.D. 1047 x 1065. Writ of King Edward declaring that he intends to have legal possession of the land at Ickworth, Suffolk (which he possesses for Westminster Abbey), and that it is to be transferred to him as soon as the present writ is read. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Sloane Ch. xxxiv. 1 (s. xii; BM Facs., iv. 35, with erroneous refernece to Cotton Ch. xxiv.1)
2. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 109r (s. xiii)
3. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Book 11, 648r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 873 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 299 (no. 24) ex MS 2; Birch 1874, p. 140, inaccurately ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 18 ex MS 2; Harmer, Writs, no. 80 (p. 347) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 316-18, 504-5, a forgery based on a probably authentic writ of the Confessor, manipulated so as to support the claim of Westminster Abbey to the estate; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, p. xxii n. 1, forged; Hart, ECEE, no. 113A, spurious; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, forgery; Chaplais 1962, on Westminster forger 9= 1981, XVIII); BA Facs., p. 11.
Eadward kyng gret Ægelmær biscop 7 Harold eorl 7 Gyrð eorl 7 Leofstan abbot 7 ealle mine þeignas in to Suðfolce freondlice/. 7 ic cyðe eow þæt ic wille beon þæs landes wurðe æt Iccawurðe swa full 7 swa forð swa gewitnesse hæfð to geboran þæt Crist 7 Sancte Peter. 7 ic hit mid rihte agan into þære haligan stowwe æt Westmunstre. 7 ic wille þæt man hit geride me to handa swa hraðe swa þis gewrit her nu gerædd beo þæt nan oðer ne sy. 7 syððan gif þær hwa on specan wille ic wille swa andswarian fore swa swa mannan þincð þæt riht lage sy. God eow ealle gehealde, Sancte Petres holde.