A.D. 1049 x 1052. Leofstan, abbot, and St Albans Abbey, to Tova, widow of Wihtric, in return for 3 marks of gold and an annual render of honey; lease, for her lifetime and that of her son, Godwine, of land at Cyrictiwa (Great Tew, Oxon.), with reversion to St Albans. English and Latin versions

Archive:

St Albans

MSS:

1. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), ff. 163v-164r (s. xvii; both versions)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Nero D. I, ff. 149-61, f. 151v (s. xiii; Latin only)

Printed:

K, 950, ex MS 2; Luard, Additamenta, pp. 29-30, ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 83, ex MS 2

Translated:

Gordon 1990, pp. 43-4

Comments:

PN Oxon., ii. 264, 289, 295; Gelling, ECTV, p. 189, on identification; Gordon 1990, pp. 43-4; Keynes 1993, pp. 266-7, details of MS 1; Blair 1994, pp. 107, 138-43, 154-5; Baxter 2001, discusses witnesses