S 1144
A.D. 1042 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Westminster Abbey, Pershore, Worcs., and Deerhurst, Gloucs., and commands that all the thegns of the lands be henceforth subject to the abbot and monks. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 112r (s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 278r (s. xiv)
3. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M., 12752 (s. xv)
Printed: K 830 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 300 (no. 33) ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 27 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 100 (pp. 364-5) ex MS 2, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 330-1, 520, probably spurious, some imitation of Anglo-Saxon script in MS 2; Finberg, ECWM, no. 181 (pp. 78, 132), spurious; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, dubious.
Eadward king gret mine biscopas 7 mine eorles 7 ealle mine þeingnes on Wigercestrescire 7 on Glowercestrescire freondlice. 7 icc kyþe eow þæt ic habbe gifen Criste 7 Sancte Petre into Westminstre Periscoran 7 Deorhyrst 7 eall þæt þer to byreð mid sace 7 mid socne, mid tolle and mid teame 7 mid infangeneþeofe, on stræte 7 of stræte, on wude 7 on felda 7 on eallan þingan swa full 7 swa forð swa hit me silfan on handa stod. 7 ic hate 7 beode þæt ealle þa þeignas of þam landen hynenforð understanden to þan abbote 7 to þam munecan into þan minstre 7 ealle þa gerihte 7 þa cnaulæcunga þe to me belimpæð don Criste 7 Sancte Petre 7 þam gebroðeran for ic nelle geþafian þæt þer ænig/ man ænigne onstingc habbe buton se abbod 7 þa gebroðera to Sancte Petres niode. God eow ealle gehealde.