S 1477
A.D. 1052 x 1066. Notification by King Edward that he has restored to Chertsey Abbey 10 hides at White Waltham, Berks., with the church there, woodland at Halewik (Hollicks, lost, in White Waltham) and Lidlegewik (Littlewick in White Waltham) and 20 acres of meadow at Cookham, Berks. English.
Archive: Chertsey
MSS: BL Cotton Vitell. A. xiii, 51rv (s. xiii)
Printed: K 844.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, p. 205 n. 1, not authentc in present form but may ultimately be based on a genuine document; PN Berks., i. 70-2; Gelling, ECTV, no. 136, citing Harmer, spurious but authentic basis possible.
In ðane halgene namen ures helendes Cristes. Ich Eaduuard king ofer Engleðeode cuðe Stigand archebissop, and Harold eorl, and alle mine þeines ðat ich mid ðusen write gelde and geue Criste and seinte Petre and Wluuold abbode and ðen broðren on Cherteseye ðo [X] hyden lond on Waltham, and ðe cherche of ðan seluen tune, and ðane wode of Halewik, and ðane of Lidlegewik, mid alle oðere þinge ðe ðareto belempeð, and [XX] æceres of ðare made at Cocham into Weltham. And ðis ich hem habbe geunne for ðan hit har into ðan munstre laig sua ich hit habbe mid mine þeines sodsage onlierned of ðara syrren, and ðarefore ich wille ðat hie habben and helden alsua hiere rigte ðane tun mid alsua muchele munde alsua on meseluen stant, on alle þinge, in wode and in felde. Se man ðe mine geue her gelitlað oðer on oðere wisen to auuenden ðene hit her beforen awriten is, ben his lif her ilitlade, and his wonienge in helle grunde buten he hit her ðe stiðlicor gebete.