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Probably c. 1000. Will of Wulfgeat of Donington, Salop, including bequests of land at Tardebigge, Worcs., as burial-fee (possibly to Donington church); also land at Kilsall, in Salop, Evenlode in Gloucs. and at Roden, Salop, to his wife; land at Donington and Thornbury, Herefords., to his daughter, Wulfgifu; land at Ingardine, Salop, to his grandson; land at Tardebigge, Worcs., to his daughter, Wilflæd. His potential claim to Wrottesley, Staffs., is mentioned. English

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Harley Charter 83 A 2 (s. xi in.; BM Facs., iv. 42)

Printed:

Sweet, Second Reader, pp. 230-1 (no. 42) ; B, 1317

Comments:

Duignan 1891, pp. 36-8 ; Bridgeman 1916, pp. 20-1 ; Finberg 1972, p. 510 n. 3, cited ; Brooks 1978, pp. 87-91, on heriot ; Hooke 1990, p. 327, cited ; Keynes 1990, pp. 253-4 ; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 94, on reference to minster at Leominster ; Pelteret 1995, pp. 129, 288 ; Foot 2000, II. 105 ; BM Facs., iv, p. 7, contemporary ; Whitelock, Wills, pp. 163-7 ; Finberg, ECWM, no. 122 (pp. 60, 118, 143, 149), authentic ; PN Staffs., i. 87 ; PN Shrops., i. 110-11, 163, 293