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A.D. 1042 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has given to Westminster Abbey, Windsor, Berks., and Staines, Middx. English

Archive:

Westminster

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters vii. 13(s. xii; BM Facs., iv. 36)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. III, f. 104v(s. xiii)
3. London, College of Arms, Young 72, f. 13v(s. xv 2)
4. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 1, f. 12r(s. xv ex.)
5. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 133r(s. xiv)

Printed:

Neufeldt 1907, no. 4; Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 141, ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 298 (no. 10), ex MS 2; Thorpe, p. 414, ex MS 1; K, 886, ex MS 1

Printed and Translated:

Harmer, Writs, no. 97 (p. 361), ex MS 1

Comments:

Bishop and Chaplais 1957, p. xxii n. 1, forged; BA Facs., p. 11; Gelling, ECTV, no. 137, following Harmer, late copy of authentic writ; Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 141, describes seal, no longer extant; Wanley, Catalogus, p. 265, suspect; Harmer, Writs, pp. 327-8, 516-17, late-11th-century copy of authentic writ; Harvey 1977, pp. 338, 354; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, probably spurious copy of basically genuine writ; Woodman, Northern Houses, p. 374, Document that uses different vocabulary for the same purposes as done in S 1243, showing the extent of local variation among writs; Stenton 1971, p. 497, cited