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S 1528

s. xi, probably after 1020. Will of Thurketel Heyng, including bequests of land at Caister, Norfolk, and Thorpe (? Thorpe Abbots or Morningthorpe, Norfolk) to St Benedict's at Holme and Bury St Edmunds; land at Ormesby, Norfolk, to his daughter Ælfwyn, with reversion to Holme; land at Scratby, Norfolk to his nephews' children, the sons of Swegen and Ealhmund. English

Archive:

Bury St Edmunds

MSS:

1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 45r (s. xiii 2)
2. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 15r (s. xiii/xiv)

Printed:

K, 960 ; B, 1017

Comments:

Pelteret 1995, pp. 126, 130 ; Whitelock, Wills, pp. 180-1 ; Hart, ECEE, no. 124, authentic ; Lowe 1993b, on vocabulary

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    • [H]er kythet on ˇis write ihu ic Thurketel an min ahte after min day. ˇat is erst ˇat ic an ˇat lond at Castre 7 at Thorpe mid medwe and mid merisce and ingong and vtgong mine soule to alisednesse god and sancte Benedicte and seynt Eadmunde to Biry and to Holm. and mine wyues del euere unbesaken to gyfen and to habben ˇer hire leuest be. and mine lafard rithte heregete. And Alfwen mine douter habbe ˇat lond at Ormisby to ˇan forwarde ˇat he it ne may forwirken. and after hire day. go ˇat lond into Holme for mine soule and for hire buten ˇat lond ˇat Omund ahte ˇat habbe Ketel mine nefe. and ˇat lond at Scrouteby habben mine nefe kild Swegner sunen 7 Alemundes. And an pund habbe se Abbot on Holm. an other se Abbot on Byri. and mine men fre ˇo it ihernen wellen. And wo so ˇis quides bereuen wille. bereue hym god heueriche. buten he it her bete. ˇise write sinden ˇre. and is on Holme and oˇer on Byri. ˇridde mid Thurkitel seluen.