A.D. 942 x c. 951. Will of Theodred, bishop of London, including bequests of land at Duxford in Cambs., Illyntone (probably Illington, Norfolk) and Arrington, Cambs., to the king; land at St Osyth in Essex, Southery in Norfolk, and Tillingham and Dunmow in Essex, to St Paul's, London; land at Mendham, Suffolk, to his sister's son, Osgot (except for the minster and 1 hide, to belong to the church); land at Shotford and Mettingham, Suffolk, to Mendham church; land at Syleham, Instead, Chickering, Ashfield Green, all in Suffolk, and Wrtinham (? Wortham, Suffolk) to Osgot; land at Horham, Athelington, Suffolk, to St Æthelberht's church at Hoxne; land at Lothingland, Suffolk, to Offa, his sister's son; land at Barton, Rougham, Pakenham, Suffolk, to his kinsman Osgot, Eadulf's son; land at Nowton, Horningsheath, Ickworth and Whepstead, Suffolk, to St Edmund's church (Bury); land at Waldringfield and a messuage in Ipswich, Suffolk, to Osgot, his sister's son; land at Wortham, Suffolk, to Wulfstan; with arrangements for the episcopal demesne in London and at Hoxne, Suffolk; at Wimbledon and Sheen, Surrey; at Fulham, Middx; and at Dengie, Essex. English

Archive:

Bury St Edmunds

MSS:

1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 48r (s. xiii 2)
2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, ff. 17v-18r (s. xiii/xiv)

Printed:

K, 957; B, 1008

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 106 (pp. 552-4)

Comments:

Stevenson 1904, p. 232, authentic; Galbraith 1925, p. 223; Whitelock, Wills, pp. 99-103; Hart, ECEE, no. 49 (pp. 40, 53, 79), authentic; Hart, ECE, no. 11, authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 444, on Theodred; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 368, cited; Whitelock 1975, pp. 18-20; Brooks 1978, pp. 87-91, on heriot; Gelling, ECTV, no. 329 (pp. 108-9, 158), authentic; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 552-3; Councils and Synods, pp. 74-6; Taylor 1992, pp. 288-93; Dumville 1993, p. 35, cited with reference to Bury; Lowe 1993b, on vocabulary; Pelteret 1995, pp. 120-1, 129; Campbell 1996, pp. 14-15; Foot 2000, II. 161