S 1514

c. A.D. 855. Will of Dunn bequeathing a haga and land at Rochester to his wife for her life, with reversion to St Andrew's (Rochester). English.

Archive: Rochester

MSS: Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), 140rv (s. xii1; facsimile)

Printed: Hearne, Textus Roffensis, p. 103; K 276; Thorpe, p. 478; B 486 (2); Earle, pp. 337-8; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 21; Robertson, Charters, no. 9 (pp. 14-17), with translation; Campbell, Rochester, no. 23.

Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 89 (p. 526).

Comments: Robertson, Charters, pp. 276-7; Finberg, ECW, p. 202, authentic; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, pp. 233-4, cited.

Notes: Probably endorsement to S 315.

+ In nomine domini . Dunn hafað þas boc gesald his wife 7 ðæt land þe þæran gewriten is an Godes Est . ðæt hio hæbbe hire dæg 7 his bruce . 7 efter hire dæge . geselle hit on ðæs halgan apostoles naman sancte Andreas ðam hirode 'in' mid unnan Godes 7 his ha'l'gena for unc buta 7 ealle uncre eldran butan hi hit mit unnan hiredes ofgan to rihtan gafole swa swa hyt hy geðingian magan . butan ælcen bræde . oððe beswice . 7 hy ðonne se hired hit geearnian mid heora godcundnæsse ofer twelf monoð . 7 stande simle mid cwide seo boc on ðæs hiredes handa.