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A.D. 1049. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Westminster Abbey the estates of Datchworth and Watton-at-Stone, Herts., as fully and completely as Ælfwynn the nun held them of the monastery and committed them to Abbot Edwin and the monks, and as King Edgar granted them to the monastery, and as they were adjudged in (the assembly of) the nine shires at Wendlebury (? Wandlebury, Cambs.). English

Archive:

Westminster

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, f. 107r(s. xiii)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 227r(s. xiv)

Printed:

Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 298 (no. 17), ex MS 1; K, 826, ex MS 1

Printed and Translated:

Harmer, Writs, no. 79 (p. 346), ex MS 2

Comments:

Hart, ECEE, no. 73, authentic, suggests that Wendlebury is Wandlebury near Cambridge; Wormald 1988, no. 87; Kennedy 1995, p. 143 n. 50.; Gelling, ECTV, no. 182, citing Harmer, may be interpolated, Wendelbury in Oxon. is equally likely; Kennedy 1985, p. 185, on shire-meeting, agrees with Wandlebury identification; Kelly, St Paul's, London, p. 204, Reference to document as an authentic pre-Conquest writ which lacks or has a short witness list, in contrast to S 992's extensive witness list; Foot 2000, II. 211-12; Harmer, Writs, pp. 315-16, 501-4, authenticity doubtful, may be interpolated, must belong to 1049; Harvey 1977, p. 346; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, status uncertain