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A.D. 1043. Leofric, comes of Chester, founds Coventry Abbey; grant of land at Coventry, Honington, Kings Newnham, Chadshunt, Bishops Itchington, Ufton, Southam, Grandborough, Birdingbury, Marston in Wolston, Priors Hardwick, Wasperton, Chesterton, Snohham, Ryton, Walsgrave on Sowe, Long Marston, Warwicks.; Salwarpe, Worcs.; Eaton, Ches.; Kilsby and Winwick, Northants.; Burbage, Barwell, Scraptoft and Packington, Leics. Latin

Archive:

Coventry

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. 32100, f. 9v (s. xvi)
2. London, British Library, Add. 32100, f. 70r-v (s. xvi)
3. London, British Library, Add. 32100, f. 114r (s. xvi)
4. London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra C. III, f. 78v (s. xvi)
5. London, British Library, Lansdowne 400, f. 47r-v (s. xvii)
7. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 5 Hen. III, m. 8
8. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 19 Edw. II, m. 3
6. London, Public Record Office, E 164/21, f. 75r (s. xv 1)
9. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 10 (S.C. 4152), f. 78r-v (s. xvii)
10. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 65 (S.C. 5007), f. 21r-v (s. xvii)
11. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 66 (S.C. 5008), f. 137r-v (s. xvii)
12. Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Birthplace Library, Gregory Leiger-Book, pp. 19-20 (s. xiv)
13. untraced Phillipps MS 27963

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 303, ex MS 6 ; K, 939, ex MSS 5, 6 ; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 190-1 (no. 2) ; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 79 ; Lancaster 1954, p. 140

Comments:

Lancaster 1954, spurious ; Oleson 1955, spurious ; Davis 1971, pp. 539-45, forged c. 1145 x 1154 ; Hooke 1990, pp. 332-3 ; Brandt 1993, p. 38, spurious ; Hooke 1999, pp. 104-5 ; Foot 2000, II. 71 ; Napier and Stevenson, p. 112 ; Harmer, Writs, p. 215 ; Finberg, ECWM, no. 159 (pp. 69, 129), spurious ; HRH, p. 234, spurious, subscriptions are few but probably consistent ; Hart, ECNE, no. 22 (pp. 64, 71, 87, 129), spurious

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