Source: S1486

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Will of Ælfflæd, including bequests of land at Dovercourt, Fulanpettæ (Beaumont), Alresford, Stanway, Byrton in Stanway (lost), Lexden, Essex; Elmsett and Buxhall, Suffolk, to the king; at Stoke, Suffolk; Hatfield (? Peverel, Essex), Stratford St Mary, Freston, Wiston, Lavenham, Balsdon, Polstead, Withermarsh, Suffolk; Greenstead (near Colchester), Peldon, (West) Mersea, Totham, Colne and Tey, Essex, to Stoke (? Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk); and at Monks Eleigh, Suffolk, to Christ Church, Canterbury; at Hadham, Herts., and at Tidwoldingtune (Heybridge near Maldon, Essex) to St Paul's, London; and at Baythorn, Essex, to Barking Abbey; at Woodham, Essex, to Ælfthryth, the king's mother, for life, with reversion to St Mary's, Barking; at Chelsworth and Cockfield, Suffolk, to St Edmund's Abbey; and at Nedging, Suffolk, to the same after the death of Crawe, her kinswoman; at Fingringhoe and Mersea, Essex, to the minster at Mersea; at Waldingfield, Suffolk, to St Gregory's, Sudbury, after the death of Crawe; at Rettendon, Essex; Soham, Ditton and Cheveley, Cambs., to Ely Abbey; at Lawling, Essex, to Ealdorman Æthelmær; and at Liston, Essex, to Æthelmær.

Notes

Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 is of the 11th century; PN Bucks., p. 41; PN Beds., p. 2, cited; Whitelock, Wills, pp. 141-6; Hart, ECEE, no. 64, authentic; Hart, ECE, no. 34, authentic; Boyden 1983, on Mersea; Hart 1992, pp. 132-5, on estates; Dumville 1993, p. 36, cited; Hart 1993, p. 197 n. 33, dates it 11 Aug. 991 x c. 1002; Keynes 1993/2, p. 306 n. 26, on Hadham; cf. S 1494, CCC 36 (S 1639).

Notes: S 1486 is preceded in MS 1 by a copy of S 1494, written by the same scribe; both are presumably later copies of originally separate documents. A second scribe added the bounds on the dorse.

Source: CharterS1486

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