S 1134
A.D. 1053 x 1066, probably 1057 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that Leofsi Duddessunu has given land at Wormley, Herts., to Westminster Abbey with his permission. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 81 (s. xii; BM Facs., iv. 40)
2. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 107r (s. xiii)
3. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 647r (s. xiv)
Printed: Madox 1702, p. 1 (no. 1) ex MS 1; K 866 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 297 (no. 18) ex MS 2; Neufeldt 1907, no. 12 ex MSS 1, 2; Hall 1908, p. 52; Harmer, Writs, no. 90 (p. 355) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 322-3, 511, probably copy of authentic writ; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, p. xxii, n. 1, forgery; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, probably spurious copy of basically genuine writ; Gelling, ECTV, no. 188, citing Bishop and Chaplais, spurious but transaction may have an authentic basis; BA Facs., p. 11.
Eadward kyngc gret wel Wulfwi biscop 7 Leofwine eorl 7 ealle mine þeignes on Heortfordscire freondlice. 7 ic kyþe eow þæt Leofsi Duddesunu hafað gegiuen Criste 7 Sancte Petre into Westmynstre þridde healue hide landes æt Wurmelea be minre geleafan 7 be minre unnan. God eow gehealde.