S 1138

A.D. 1053 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given Rutland to Westminster Abbey and Queen Edith is to have it for her lifetime. English.

Archive: Westminster

MSS: 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M., XIV (s. xii; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 13)
2. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 109rv (s. xiii)
3. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 594r (s. xiv)

Printed: Widmore 1751, Appendix no. 1; K 863 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 299 (no. 25) ex MS 2; Birch 1874, p. 142 ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 19 ex MSS 1, 2; Harmer, Writs, no. 94 (p. 359)ex MS 1, with translation.

Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 323-4, 514-15, slightly modernised version of authentic writ; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, p. xxi (no. iv), p. xxii n. 1, forged; Lennard 1959, pp. 169-70, cited; Hart, ECEE, no. 162, authentic; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, 12th-century forgery; Harvey 1977, p. 357; BA Facs., p. 11; Meyer 1993, pp. 88-9.

Eadward kyngc gret Wulfwi biscop 7 Norðman scirgerefan 7 ælfwine Merefinnes sunu 7 ealle mine þeignes on Hamtunscire frendlice. 7 ic kyþe eow þæt ic habbe gegifen Criste 7 Sancte Petre into Westmynstre Roteland 7 eall þæt þær to herð mid saca 7 mid socne, mid tolle 7 mid teame 7 on eallan ðingan swa full 7 swa forð swa hit me silfan on handa stod. 7 ic ann þæt Eadgiþ seo hlefdige hit on hande habbe swa lange swa heo libbe 7 ælce gære þæt munster þær of gegodige. God eow gehealde.