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A.D. 1044 x 1045. Record of the settlement of a dispute over St Mildrith's property between Ælfstan, abbot of St Augustine's, and Leofwine, priest. Leofwine gives up his claim in return for an annual payment of five pounds and a life-interest in 1 sulung at Langdon and 1 at Ileden, Kent, to revert to St Augustine's after his death. English

Archive:

Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS:

1. Canterbury, D.C., A 207 (s. xi med.; OS Facs., i. 23)

Printed:

K, 790

Comments:

Wormald 1988, no. 84 ; Foot 2000, II. 129, 130 ; Wallenberg, KPN, p. 325, on place-names ; Robertson, Charters, pp. 438-9 ; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp.xxii-iii, no trace in St Augustine's archive ; Wormald, English Law, p. 152 n. 118

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    • + Her swutelað on þisum gewrite ð[a fore]weard þe Godwine eorl worhte betweonan Ælfstane abbod 7 þam hirede æt sancte Augustine 7 Leofwine preoste embe sancta Myl[dryþe a]re . þæt is ðæt Leofwine cænde þæt he bohte þa are æt Cnute cinincge . 7 se abbod cænde þæt Cnut cing gelogode þa halig [......7....]are þ[....]ra eama wergeld wæs into sancte Augustine una[wen]dedlice . þam Godes ðyowan bi to libbanne ða hwile [.....] Nu is þis se seht þe Godwine eorl worhte betweonan þæm [ab]bod [7] þam hirede æt sancte Augustine . 7 Leo[fw]ine preost þæt [Ælfstan] abbod 7 se hired [scolde] geunnan Leofwine preoste .ii. suling landes an æt Lang[a]dune 7 oþer æt Gildinge 7 .v. pund penega ælcum g[ea]re healf to sancte Martines mæssan . 7 healf to midlængtene . on ful[lu]ht 7 æfter his dæge ga land 7 feoh into sancte Augustine mid cildum 7 magum 7 e[all]um geborenan mæn . si abbod se ðe si . Nu is þises to [ge]w[it]nesse Eadsi arcebisceop . 7 Siword bisceop . 7 Godwine eorl þe ðone seht worhte 7 se hired æt Cristes ciricean . 7 se hired æt sancte Augustine . Nu [sin]d þisse gewrite þreo . an is æt Cristes cyricean . 7 oþer æt sancte Augustine . 7 þridde hæfþ Leofwine preost
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    • + Her swutela∂ on ˇisum gewrite [ˇa forew]eard ˇe Godwine eorl worhte betweonan Ælfstan abbod 7 ˇam hirede æt sancte Augustine 7 Leofwine preoste embe sancta Myl[dryˇe a]re . ˇæt is ∂æt L