Source: CharterS1078
Description
Writ of King Edward declaring that the monastery at Bury St Edmunds is to possess the sokes of the eight and a half hundreds which he has given to that house, as fully and completely as ever his mother (Queen Ælfgifu) had them, and he himself possessed them.
Charter information
| Sawyer |
1078 |
| Birch |
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| Kemble |
883 |
| British Academy |
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| Source Used |
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| Archive(s) |
Bury St Edmunds |
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Source Information
| Scholarly Source Dating |
1052 x 1057 |
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Notes
Harmer, Writs, pp. 147-8, 440-2; Gransden 1985, p. 12, cited; Dumville 1993, pp. 36-7.