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A.D. 1044 x 1065 (? 1044). Writ of King Edward declaring that Abbot Leofstan and the brethren in Bury St Edmunds are to have sake and soke over all their own men both within borough and without. English

Archive:

Bury St Edmunds

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 80(s. xi; BM Facs., iv. 29; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, pl. 1)
2. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 22v(s. xiii 2)
3. London, British Library, Add. 14847, f. 30v(s. xiii/xiv)

Printed:

Madox 1702, p. 290; K, 894

Printed and Translated:

Harmer, Writs, no. 11 (p. 156), ex MS 1

Comments:

Bishop and Chaplais 1957, textual authenticity reasonably certain, physical authenticity of MS 1 difficult to establish; Harmer, Writs, pp. 139, 437-8, authentic; Woodman, Northern Houses, p. 158, Writ with high levels of similarity to S 1159; Keynes 1988, pp. 215, 216 n. 183, original; on formulation, cf. S 1157; Kelly, St Paul's, London, p. 217, Mention of writ as being from the same period as S 1103 and that its script can provide insight into the latter; Sharpe 2003, pp. 271-2, part of sequence of writs; Hart, ECNE, p. 385, original