S 1135
A.D. 1053 x 1066, probably 1057 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that the monks of Westminster are to have the estate at Ayot (St Lawrence), Herts., given by Ælfwine Gottone and his wife. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 106v-107r (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 226v (s. xiv)
Printed: K 864 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 298 (no. 16) ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 1 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 91 (p. 356) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 310-11, 511-12, dubious, may represent an 'improved' version of an authentic writ; Gelling, ECTV, no. 189, spurious.
Edward cingc gret Wulfwi biscop 7 Leofwin eorl 7 Esgar stallere 7 alle mine þeignas 7 mine holde freond on Hertfordscire freondlice/. Ic kiþe eow þæt ic wille 7 þat ic ann þat Sancte Peter 7 þa gebroðra on Westminstre habben þat cotlif Ægate 7 alc þare þinga þe þar to mid rihte gebireð mid circe 7 mid milne, mid wude 7 mid felde, mid lese 7 mid mæde 7 on eallun þingun swa full 7 swa forð swa ælwine Gottone 7 his wif hit/ firmest ahten 7 for/ here saule alesednesse into þare halgen stowe gegafan. And ic ann hem eft alswa þæt hi habben þær to sace 7 socne, toll 7 team, infangeneþeof 7 flemenesfrimthe 7 miskenninge/ 7 ealle oðere gerihte on allun þingun þe þar up aspringeð/. And ic nelle nateswon geþafian þat anig man hit atbrede oððer geutie of þare halgan stowe oððer þat enig man þar/ anigne onstinge habbe on enigne þingan oððer on ænigne timan butan se abbot 7 þa gebroðera to þas minstres neode. God eow gehelde 7 ealla þa þe sind holde into þam halgan stede, Amen.