A.D. 984 x 1016 (probably 984 x 1001). Will of Wulfwaru, including bequests of land at Freshford, Somerset, to Ælfhere, abbot of Bath; at Claverton, Compton and Butcombe, Somerset, to Wulfmær, her son; at Butcombe to Ælfwaru, her daughter; at Leigh, Holton, Somerset, and at Hocgestune, to Ælfwine, her son; at Winford, Somerset, to Gode, her daughter. English

Archive:

Bath

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 55-131, pp. 88-90 (s. xii 2)

Printed:

Hickes, Diss. Epist., p. 54; K, 694; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 265 (no. 5); Hunt, Bath Carts., pp. 32-3

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 125 (pp. 586-9); Whitelock, EHD, no. 116 (pp. 567-8)

Comments:

Whitelock, Wills, pp. 174-5; Finberg, ECW, no. 524, authentic; Chaplais 1966a, p. 173, on epistolary aspects (= 1973, p. 58); Finberg 1972, pp. 510 n. 3, 519, cited; Whitelock, EHD, p. 567; Pelteret 1995, pp. 128, 288; Abrams 1996, pp. 96 n. 116, 139, on estates