S 1502
A.D. 1048 x 1050. Æthelric Bigga to St Augustine's; bequest of land at Bodsham and Wilderton, Kent, to take effect after the death of the present tenants. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, St Augustine's
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Jul. D. ii, 105r (s. xiii)
2. PRO E 164/27, 83rv (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1338 ex MS 1; Thorpe, p. 586 ex MS 1; Kelly, St Augustine's, no. 38 ex MSS 1, 2.
Comments: Turner 1915, p. xl; Wallenberg, KPN, p. 333, on place-names; Abels 1988, pp. 150-1, on tenurial bckground; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 133-4, authentic, probably translation of Old English original.
Hic notatur quod Ægelricus Bigga concedit sancto Augustino post obitum suum, consensu domini sui Ædwardi regis, terras Bodesham et Wilrintun, eo pacto quod Wade eius miles sedeat dies suos in Bodesham et Lifwine Feireage sedeat dies suos in Wilrinton. Et post obitum amborum terre remaneant sancto Augustino et abbas procuret terras ad opus monasterii sicut amorem Dei habere uelit et sancti Petri et sancti Augustini. Et Dei odium habeat quisquis hanc donationem infregerit, nisi citius emendauerit erga Deum et sanctos ibi quiescentes. Huic donationi sunt testes Eadsinus archiepiscopus et conuentus Christi ecclesie et Rodbertus episcopus London' et Godwinus episcopus sancti Martini etc.