Source: CharterS1527

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Will of Thurketel, including bequests of land at Palgrave, Suffolk, to Bury St Edmunds; half of Palgrave, Suffolk, to Bury St Edmunds, and half to the bishop; land at Roydon, Norfolk, Scortland, and the priest's toft, to the church; land at Shrimpling and half the land at Roydon, Norfolk, to his wife, Leofwyn; land at Wingfield, Suffolk, to his brother's sons Ulfketel and Thurketel; 15 acres at Palgrave, Suffolk, and a toft to Leofcwen; land at Thrandeston, Suffolk, to Osbeorn; 20 acres at Roydon, Norfolk, to his nephew Leofric, his kinsman Godwine, and Wulfwine and his brother

Charter information
Sawyer 1527
Birch 1020
Kemble 959
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Bury St Edmunds
Source Information
Language Latin
Scholarly Source Dating 1000 x 1100

Notes

Whitelock, Wills, pp. 179-80; Hart, ECEE, no. 90 (pp. 66, 92), authentic; Finberg 1972, p. 490, cited; Wormald 1988, no. 82; Lowe 1993b, on vocabulary; Pelteret 1995, pp. 123-6, 130; Faith 1997, p. 63, cited; cf. S 1213. Notes: Issued in triplicate, with portions held by Bury St Edmunds, the bishop of Elmham and Thurketel.