A.D. 1052 or 1053 x 1057. Writ of King Edward declaring that the monastery at Bury St Edmunds is to possess the sokes of the eight and a half hundreds which he has given to that house, as fully and completely as ever his mother (Queen Ælfgifu) had them, and he himself possessed them. English and Latin versions

Archive:

Bury St Edmunds

MSS:

1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 22r-v (s. xiii 2; English)
2. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.4.35, f. 23v (s. xv med.; English; incomplete)
3. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 30r (s. xiii/xiv; English)
4. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 22v (s. xiii 2; Latin)
5. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.4.35, ff. 3v-4r (s. xv med.; Latin; incomplete)
6. Cambridge, University Library, Gg.4.4, f. 97r (s. xv med.; Latin)
7. London, British Library, Add. 5846, f. 18r (s. xviii; Latin)
8. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 30r-v (s. xiii/xiv; Latin)

Printed:

K, 883, ex MS 1; K, 905, ex MS 7; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 138 (no. 7), ex MS 7; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 58

Comments:

Harmer, Writs, pp. 147-8, 440-2; Gransden 1985, p. 12, cited; Dumville 1993, pp. 36-7.; Sharpe 2003, pp. 263-4, part of sequence of writs