A.D. 1023 x 1038.Will of Ælfric, bishop (of Elmham), including bequests of land at Worlingworth, Suffolk, and at Hunstanton, Holme, Tichwell and Docking, Norfolk, to Bury St Edmunds; at Grimston, Norfolk, to Leofstan, the dean; and instructions to sell land at Walsingham and Fersfield, Norfolk; also bequests of land at Egmere, Norfolk, part to Ælfwine and part to Ufi, the prior; the mill at Guist, Norfolk, to Edwin, the monk; land at Roydon, Norfolk, to Ælfwig, the priest; and at Moulton (probably Suffolk) to Sibriht; also a messuage in Norwich to St Edmunds and one in London to St Peter's. English

Archive:

Bury St Edmunds

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 85 (BM Facs., iv. 21)
2. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 48r-v (s. xiii 2)
3. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 18v (s. xiii/xiv)
4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gough Berks 20 (S.C. 17734), f. 14r-v (s. xviii)
5. Oxford, Bodleian Library, James 24 (S.C. 3861), pp. 72-73 (s. xvii)

Printed:

K, 759; Sweet, Second Reader, pp. 236-7 (no. 45); Earle, pp. 240-1; Councils and Synods, no. 66 (pp. 514-16)

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 126 (pp. 589-90)

Comments:

BM Facs., iv, p. 7, MS 1 contemporary; Stevenson 1913, p. 115 n. 16, MS 1 a contemporary hand; Whitelock, Wills, pp. 181-4; Hart, ECEE, no. 88 (pp. 65, 82), authentic; Brooke and Keir 1975, pp. 368, 369, authentic; Councils and Synods, p. 513; Dumville 1993, p. 42 and n. 177, dates 1023 x 1038; Pelteret 1995, p. 122; Campbell 1996, p. 17, probably Ælfric II (d. 1038).