A.D. 1044 x 1065. Writ of King Edward declaring that Abbot Leofstan and the brethren are to have sake and soke over the lands bequeathed to them as fully and completely as this right was enjoyed by the previous owner. English and Latin versions

Archive:

Bury St Edmunds

MSS:

1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 22v (s. xiii 2; English and Latin)
2. Cambridge, University Library, Mm.4.19, f. 105v (s. xii 2; English and Latin)
3. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 30v (s. xiii/xiv; English and Latin)
4. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.4.35, f. 4r (s. xv med.; Latin only; incomplete)

Printed:

K, 892, English version, ex MS 1; K, 1345, Latin version, ex MS 2; Hervey 1907, p. 606

Comments:

Harmer, Writs, pp. 139-40, 438, authentic; Sharpe 2003, p. 272, part of sequence of writs