S 1141

A.D. 1042 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Westminster Abbey, Windsor, Berks., and Staines, Middx. English.

Archive: Westminster

MSS: 1. BL Cotton Ch. vii. 13 (s. xii; BM Facs., iv. 36)
2. BL Cotton Faust. A. ii, 104v (s. xiii)
3. London, College of Arms, Young 72, 13v (s. xv)
4. London, Westminster Abbey, Munment Bk 1, 12r (s. xiv)
5. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 133r (s. xiv)

Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 141 ex MS 1; K 886 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 298 (no. 10) ex MS 2; Thorpe, p. 414 ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 4; Harmer, Writs, no. 97 (p. 361) ex MS 1, with translation.

Comments: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 141, describes seal, no longer extant; Wanley, Catalogus, p. 265, suspect; Harmer, Writs, pp. 327-8, 516-17, late-11th-century copy of authentic writ; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, p. xxii n. 1, forged; Stenton 1971, p. 497, cited; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, probably spurious copy of basically genuine writ; Harvey 1977, pp. 338, 354; Gelling, ECTV, no. 137, following Harmer, late copy of authentic writ; BA Facs., p. 11.

Eadward kyngc gret alle mine bisceopes 7 mine eorles 7 mine þegenes on Barrocscire 7 on Middelsexen freondlice. 7 ic kyþe eow þæt ic habbe gegifan Criste 7 Sancte Petre into Westmynstre Windlesoran 7 Stane 7 eall þæt þær to herð binnan burh 7 butan, mid saca 7 mid socne, mid tolle 7 mid teame 7 mid infangenum þeofe, on wude 7 on felde, be strande 7 be lande, on stræte 7 of stræte 7 on eallan þingan swa full 7 swa forð swa hit me sylfan on hande stod. 7 ic nelle geþafian þæt þær æni mann ænine onstync þær ofer habbe on/ ænige þingan butan se abbot 7 þa mynekas to Sancte Petres neode. God eow gehealde.