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A.D. 1052 x 1053. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has confirmed his mother's bequest to the monks of Old Minster of a messuage (haga) called Ælfrices Godebegeaton in Winchester, which she held by the gift of King Æthelred (cf. S 925), and of 10 hides on Hayling Island, Hants. English

Archive:

Winchester, Old Minster

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. 29436, f. 10v (s. xiii med.)
2. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 10 Edw. II, no. 7
3. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 9 Edw. III, no. 40
4. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 4 Ric. II, no. 10
5. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 1 Hen. IV, pt 2, no. 9
6. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 2 Hen. V, pt 1, m. 39
9. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 20, no. 13
10. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 20, no. 18
11. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 34, no. 2
12. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 35, m. 3
7. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 2 Hen. VI, pt 2, m. 11
8. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 2 Edw. IV, pt 6, m. 9
13. London, Public Record Office, DL 10/291 (s. xiv)
14. London, Public Record Office, E 32, Bundle 267, m. 24 (s. xiv)
15. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 24 (S.C. 4167), f. 107r-v (s. xvii)
16. Winchester, DC., St Swithun's Cartulary, pt 1, f. 6v (s. xiv; no. 31)

Printed:

Goodman 1923, pp. 6-7 ; Goodman, Winchester Cart., p. 14 (no. 31), ex MS 16

Comments:

Biddle et al. 1976, p. 237, on haga ; Kennedy 1995, p. 151 n. 86, on immunity ; Wormald 1995, p. 129 n., has been tampered with ; Wormald 1996, p. 123, on immunity ; Rumble 2002, no. XXIX, genuine writ with later interpolation about Hayling ; Harmer, Writs, pp. 382-5, 526, apparently authentic except for the final clause relating to Hayling ; Finberg, ECW, no. 169, authentic basis