Source: CharterS1483

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Description

Will of Ælfgar, including bequests of land at Cockfield, Suffolk; Fen Ditton, Cambs.; Lavenham, Suffolk; Baythorne, Essex; Monks Eleigh, Suffolk; Colne, Tey, Peldon, (West) Mersea, Greenstead, Tidwoldingstone (Heybridge near Maldon) and Totham, Essex; Ashfield and Rushbrook, Suffolk; the beneficiaries including St Edmunds Bedericesworth; the community at Stoke (probably Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk); Barking, St Mary's; Canterbury, Christ Church; and London, St Paul's.

Charter information
Sawyer 1483
Birch 1012
Kemble 1222
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Bury St Edmunds
Source Information
Language Old English
Scholarly Source Dating 946 x 951

Notes

Whitelock, Wills, pp. 103-8; Hart, ECEE, no. 50, authentic; Hart, ECE, no. 11, authentic; Finberg 1972, p. 481, on an assessment; Brooks 1978, pp. 87-91, on heriot; Hart 1987/1, pp. 64, 68-9; Hart 1992, pp. 127-31, 134; Dumville 1993, p. 35, cited; Stafford 1994, pp. 231-3, on testator's intentions.

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
  Wills     no.2