S 996
A.D. 1040 x 1042. Writ of King Harthacnut declaring that Abbot Athelstan of Ramsey is to have his mansus in Thetford, Norfolk, as fully and freely as he had it in the days of King Cnut. Latin.
Archive: Ramsey
MSS: 1. PRO E 164/28, 157r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Rawl. B. 333, 19v (s. xiv1)
3. Bodleian, Rawl. B. 333, 34v (s. xiv1)
Printed: Spelman 1664, p. 394 ex MS 2; Gale, Scriptores XV, ii. 449, cap. xcix ex MS 1; K 1331; Macray, Chron. Ramsey, p. 152; Harmer, Writs, no. 56 ex MS 2.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 245-6, 471, authentic; Hart, ECEE, no. 126, authentic; Hart 1992, p. 103.
Hardecnut rex Agelwino 7 omnibus burgensibus de Tedfordia salutem. Notum uobis sit quod ego uolo 7 precipio ut abbas Æthestanus de Ramesia habeat mansum suum in Tedfordia ita plene 7 ita libere sicut habuit in diebus Cnutonis regis patris mei.
Heading: Item carta eiusdem qua confirmauit nobis mansionem nostram apud Tedfordiam.