S 1084
A.D. 1065 x 1066. Writ of King Edward confirming to the monastery at Bury St Edmunds the sokes of the eight and a half hundreds (after the appointment of Baldwin as abbot of Bury). English.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 49 (s. xi2; BM Facs., iv. 39; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, pl. 2)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Ee. 3. 60, 127r (s. xiv)
3. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 22v (s. xiii2)
4. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 4. 35, 23v (s. xv; incomplete)
5. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 102v (s. xv)
6. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 271r (s. xv)
7. BL Add. 14847, 30v (s. xiv)
8. BL Harley 638, 26r (s. xiv)
9. PRO Chart. Ant. R. 15, no. 2 (s. xiii)
10. PRO Ch.R. 8 Edw. II, no. 11
11. PRO Ch.R. 4 Edw. III, no. 58
12. PRO Ch.R. 7-8 Ric. II, no. 11
13. PRO Ch.R. 1 Hen. IV, pt 2, no. 2
14. PRO Ch.R. 1 Hen. V, pt 2, no. 6
15. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI, pt 2, m. 38
16. PRO Pat. R. 2 Edw. IV, pt 6, m. 21
17. PRO Conf. R. 6, no. 9 (s. xv)
18. PRO Conf. R. 14, no. 10 (s. xv)
19. PRO Conf. R. 53, no. 5 (s. xvi)
20. Bodleian, Gough Cambridge, 22, 13v (s. xiv2)
Printed: K 874 ex MS 1; Hervey 1925, i. 295; Harmer, Writs, no. 24 (pp. 164-5) ex MS 1, with translation; Conway Davies 1957, p. 87 ex MS 9.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 147-8, 443-4, authentic, MS 1 contemporary; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, the text is apparently free from any suspicious features; Chaplais 1966/1, p. 175 and n. 24, MS 1 probably written at Bury (= 1973, p. 60 n. 124); Hart, ECNE, p. 385, original; Gransden 1985, p. 12; Keynes 1988, p. 215 n. 181, queries Bury identity of scribe of MS 1; Dumville 1993, p. 37 n. 140, cited.
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