Source: Textual EditionAnon.LiberEliensis

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Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp. E.O. Blake Liber Eliensis London 1962

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Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp. J. Fairweather Liber Eliensis: a history of the Isle of Ely from the seventh century to the twelfth Woodbridge 2005

Event/Transaction List

Factoid Type Source Reference Short Description 1 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.26 / LÆ 36 Wulfnoth 25 offered Bishop Æthelwold 1 his 10 hides at Toft. Once a completion date was set, Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 came to Cambridge within 8 days and, in the presence of the whole city, gave Wulfnoth 25 40 pounds. The abbot asked for sureties and was told that Cambridge, Norwich, Thetford and Ipswich were possessed of such great freedom and dignity that if anyone bought land there, he did not require sureties. 2 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I preface Æthelthryth 2 chose to dwell at Cratendune / Ely ... she sited her living-quarters near the course of the river, on higher ground. 3 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I preface Æthelthryth 2 acquired the Isle of Ely through the legal settlement upon her of a marriage-portion from Tondberht 1 her first husband. 4 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I preface; I.15 A monastery had been built there [i.e. at Cratendune OR Ely] in honour of the ever-virgin Mary, by the blessed Augustine 1. King Æthelberht 3 was the first founder of this institution: he established in it clergy performing the service of God. 5 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I preface; I.15 The army of Penda 1 afterwards drove them [the clerics of the early church at/near Ely] out from there, when it was devastating the country and its neighbourhood, and reduced the place to an uninhabited wilderness. 6 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I preface The pagan King Ivar 1 and his allies, thoroughly ransacked the place, having killed some of the women living there and put to flight the rest. 7 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.1 Rædwald 1 in Kent had been initiated in the sacraments of the faith, but in vain. For, having been led astray by his wife, he had latter years inferior to his earlier ones. 8 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.1 It was Eorpwald 1 who for the first time adopted, together with that same province, the faith and sacraments of Christ, on the persuasion of Edwin 2, king of Northumbria. 9 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.1 Eorpwald 1 was killed not long after he had converted. 10 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.1 Sigeberht 3 brought the province [i.e. that of the East Angles], which had been embroiled in error for three years, to a correct faith and the works of righteousness. This he did through the agency of the holy Bishop Felix 2. 11 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.1 After the death of Eorpwald 1, Felix 2 came to England with Sigeberht 3 and was made Bishop of East Anglia, taking up his see in the city of Dummoc. 12 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.1 Felix 2 was made Bishop of East Anglia, taking up his see in the city of Dummoc. 13 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.1 King Sigeberht 3 retiring from affairs of state, entrusted them to his kinsman Ecgric 1. 14 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.1 King Sigeberht 3 retiring from affairs of state, entrusted them to his kinsman, Ecgric 1. 15 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.1 King Sigeberht 3, retiring from affairs of state ... entered a monastery which he had brought into being for himself and received the tonsure. 16 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.1 Sigeberht 3 founded a monastery for himself. 17 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.1 King Penda 1 went forth to war against the East Angles. Seeing they were being worsted in the war, they asked Sigeberht 3 to come with them into battle as an encouragement to the soldiery. Indeed, as he was unwilling and refused, they extracted him against his will from the monastery and led him into battle, hoping that the soldiers' spirits would become less panic-stricken, and less inclined to flee, in the presence of a chieftan who had once been very strenuous. But the holy man, mindful of his profession, all the time that he was surrounded by the mass ranks of the conquering army, refused to hold anything but just a staff in his hand, and he was killed, along with Ecgric 1 and as the pagans kept on attacking their whole army was massacred and routed. 18 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.1 King Penda 1 went forth to war against the East Angles. Seeing they were being worsted in the war, they asked Sigeberht 3 to come with them into battle as an encouragement to the soldiery. Indeed, as he was unwilling and refused, they extracted him against his will from the monastery and led him into battle, hoping that the soldiers' spirits would become less panic-stricken, and less inclined to flee, in the presence of a chieftan who had once been very strenuous. But the holy man, mindful of his profession, all the time that he was surrounded by the mass ranks of the conquering army, refused to hold anything but just a staff in his hand, and he was killed, along with Ecgric 1 and as the pagans kept on attacking their whole army was massacred and routed. 19 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.1 After his accession Anna 1, adorned with buildings and a great many gifts the monastery which Fursa 1 had been given by Sigeberht 3, sited with the castle which is called in English Cnobheresburh. 20 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  I.1 King Sigeberht 3 granted Fursa 1 the monastery at Cnobheresburh. 21 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  1.2 King Æthelwald 5 died. 22 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  1.2 In the fifth year of the reign of her father [Anna 1] Sæthryth 1, married a husband, Eorcenberht 1, King of the Kentish people. 23 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.2, I.4 Anna 1 had a violent death. 24 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  1.2 Wihtburg 1 entered the monastery at Dereham after her father, Anna 1's, violent death. 25 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  1.3 Æthelthryth 2 was born among the East Angles at a well-reputed place called Exning. 26 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  1.3 Favouring sobriety and chastity from the very earliest stages of her infancy, she [Æthelthryth 2] used to keep making her way to the thresholds of churches, sometimes following in her parents' footsteps, sometimes alone and was happy to pray to God assiduously, while neglecting the pastimes of girls. 27 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  1.4 Æthelthryth 2 was asked for in marriage by Tondberht 1 of the Southern Gyrwe. ... He asked her father, the king, that she be given in marriage to him. King Anna 1 gave his assent to the longed-for object of the young petitioner's desire and, being a trustworthy king, made it his aim to give him satisfaction. Æthelthryth 2, hearing this, was very horrified, resisted for a long time, said 'no' for a long time, as she wished with all her desire to live her whole life out in virginity. But the authority of her parents was victorious - no, rather, what changed her mind was Divine Providence ... She was therefore betrothed, with the greatest ceremoniousness, two years before the violent death of her father. 28 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  1.4 Tondberht 1 gave the Isle of Ely to Æthelthryth 2 as a marriage gift. 29 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.4 Tondberht 1 died 3 years after his marriage to Æthelthryth 2. 30 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.6 After he had been bishop for 18 years, Felix 2 died at Dummoc in the 12th year of King Anna 1's reign. 31 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.6 Felix 2 was buried at Soham. 32 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.6 'There used to exist [at Soham] a large and well-known monastic house, in which a considerable community of monks, assembled by a venerable princeps, Lutting 1, observed the order of a holy rule under an abbot, Wærfrith 7. Indeed, one reads in an English source that St Felix 2 was the original founder of the old monastery of Soham and of the church at Redham. 33 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.6 Felix 2 founded the church at Redham. 34 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.6 The remains of Felix 2 were translated from Soham to Ramsey in the time of King Cnut 3. This was done some years after the church had been destroyed by pagans from Denmark. 35 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.6 Bishop Felix 2 baptised King Anna 1 and all his household along with the province of the East Angles. 36 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 Anna 1 showed amazing solicitude in the building of churches. 37 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 Cenwealh 2 repudiated the sister of Penda 1 to whom he had been married. 38 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 After repudiating the sister of Penda 1, King of Mercia, to whom he had been married, Cenwealh 2 took a second wife, and consequently he was harried in war and deprived of his kingdom by Penda 1. 39 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 Cenwealh 2 spent 3 years in exile with the household of King Anna 1. There he came to a recognition of the faith and received the truth. 40 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 Whilst in exile at the court of Anna 1, Cenwealh 2 came to a recognition of the faith and received the truth. ... King Cenwealh 2 was baptized ... by Bishop Felix 2, and King Anna 1 received him from the holy font. 41 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 With King Anna 1's assistance, Cenwealh 2 returned after a while to Wessex, and successfully wrested his father's kingdom from his enemies. 42 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 Anna 1 was killed by King Penda 1 of the Mercians, in the 19th year of his reign, the 654th year from the incarnation of the Lord. 43 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 There is in the same province, a place called Blythborough in the vernacular, in which the body of the venerable King Anna 1 is buried, and to this day is venerated by the pious devotion of faithful people. 44 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 Germinus 1 was buried at Blythborough. 45 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 Germinus 1 was translated from Blythborough to Bury St Edmunds. 46 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 After the king's [i.e. Anna 1's death], the queen [Hereswith 1] travelled to Gaul and retreated to the convent of Chelles. ... Later her sister, Hild 1, came to join her ... It was her wish to live as an expatriate, in that same convent of Chelles ... but she was called home after a year by Bishop Aidan 1. 47 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 Sigeberht 3 was killed by Penda 1. 48 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 Penda 1 killed Ecgric 1. 49 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 Penda 1 killed Anna 1. 50 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 Penda 1 killed Edwin 2. 51 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 Penda 1 killed Oswald 1. 52 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 Penda 1, supported by 30 legions and the same number of most noble commanders, went up to Bernicia, to wage war against Oswiu 1. King Oswiu 1, along with his son Ealhfrith 1, came to meet him. He had only one legion, but had placed his reliance upon Christ's leadership. For Oswiu 1's other son, Ecgfrith 4, was at that time detained as a hostage in the province of Mercia in the household of Penda 1's queen, Cynewise 1. ... Even the son of Oswald 1, Æthelwald 6, who ought to have been assisting Oswiu 1 and Ealhfrith 1 on that occasion, was on the side of their enemies. He had become a commander, and was to fight for them against his homeland and his uncle. On this particular occasion, although he had kept apart from them, he was awaiting the outcome of the battle in a safe place. And when battle was entered, the 30 pagan commanders of King Penda 1 were put to flight and slaughtered, and those who had come to his aid were almost all killed. Amongst the slain was the very person who had instigated the war, Æthelhere 1, the brother of Anna 1, King of the East Angles, who became ruler in succession to him. King Oswiu 1 brought this war to a close in the 13th year of his reign, to the great benefit of both populaces. 53 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 Æthelhere 1 was killed at the Battle of [Winwæd]. 54 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 Ecgfrith 4 was being held in exile in the household of Cynewise 1. 55 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 King Oswiu 1, in return for victory [at the Battle of Winwæd], made an offering to God of 12 properties for the construction of monasteries and his daughter, Ælfflæd 2, to be consecrated in perpetual virginity. 56 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 In the fourth year [after Winwæd], the leaders of the Mercians rebelled against Oswiu 1. They set up Wulfhere 1, son of Penda 1, as king, having kept him in hiding. 57 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 The king of the East Saxons, Swithhelm 1, often came to visit King Æthelwald 5, because of their common interests and so, when this happened, Æthelwald 5 exhorted him with friendly and, so to speak, brotherly advice to abandon the vanity of idols for belief in the Lord Jesus Christ. With the support of his friends, Swithhelm 1 became a believer and was baptised by Chad 1, bishop of the Mercians, who at that time had arrived in the province of the East Angles. The King of these East Angles ... received Swithhelm 1 from the water of baptism. 58 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7 Abbess Ecgburg 1 sent a sarcophagus of lead and linen for Guthlac 2, the servant of God, after his death, to be laid and wrapped in. 59 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.8 Tondberht 1 died not long after he had received Æthelthryth 2 as his wife. 60 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.8 After her husband, Tondberht 1's death, Æthelthryth 2 went down to her own home in Ely. There she made great efforts to serve Christ. 61 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.8 Ecgfrith 4 was enflamed with love for the virgin [Æthelthryth 2] and he brought with him measureless wealth and promised many marriage-gifts. Being all the time aimed at conferring transitory honours upon her, the petition of the prince became most assuredly a burden to her rather than an honour. He next assailed her parents with earnest pleas, as a result of which, since she could not find the strength to struggle against their will any longer, she eventually acquiesced in the wishes of the petitioners, even though with reluctance. So it was that, contrary to her hopes, in the sixth year after the death of her father, by the united will of her kinfolk, in the time of her uncle Æthelwald 5 ... she was given in marriage a second time, to another royal husband, namely Ecgfrith 4, son of Oswiu 1, king of the Northumbrians. 62 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.8 Gregory 1 made a pun on Ælle 2's name, saying 'Alleluia!'. 63 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.8 Oswiu 1 set up his son Ealhfrith 1 as king over the provinces of Deira and Bernicia. 64 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.8 Oswiu 1 appointed Ecgfrith 4 as his sharer in the kingship over the province of York, since, being oppressed by bodily illness, he was finding difficulty in maintaining secure jurisdiction over the kingdom. 65 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.8 King Ecgfrith 4, devoted to holy works along with his Queen, Æthelthryth 2, became, together with her, obedient in all matters to Bishop Wilfrid 2. There followed peace and joy among their peoples, and successful years and victories against their enemies, God being their helper. So one reads in the Life of this same confessor of the Lord, Wilfrid 2. 66 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  I.8 Æthelthryth 2 granted Wilfrid 2 Hexham. 67 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.8 Having received Hexham from Æthelthryth 2, Wilfrid 2 built a house for the Lord in honour of the blessed Apostle Andrew, raised upon variegated columns and many pillared aisles. 68 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.8 Owine 1 approached the monastery of Chad 1, bishop of the Mercians, clothed solely in a habit, and with a hatchet and an adze in his hand, and made it clear that he was not entering the monastery for an easy life, as some do. There, on the strength of the reverence of his devotion, he was accepted among the brothers and became a great friend of the saintly bishop, and heard above him the arrival of the heavenly host before Chad 1’s death. 69 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.9 Ecgfrith 4 approached Wilfrid 2 both in person and through his friends, and quite frequently had meetings with him, begging and beseeching him, and trying to entice him with the promise of many great things, to induce him to persuade the queen [Æthelthryth 2] to set aside her resolve concerning virginity. He saw her assiduous friendly relations with the bishop for she kept receiving instruction from the latter’s exhortations; she was emulating him in the love of Christ. Consequently, the king kept wearying God’s herald with rewards – vainly. For Bishop Wilfrid 2 was never willing to urge marital relations upon the virgin, and she was never willing to give her acquiescence to the king. 70 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.9 It happened once that the most blessed queen [Æthelthryth 2] entered the bed-chamber at a quiet time of the night; and the king [Ecgfrith 4] sent a message that he would quickly be following her. And when she learnt of this, she began to be ineffably saddened and grief-stricken, for fear of being robbed of the desired object of her resolve. And, opening up her inner self in prayer accompanied by groaning, she said to God, ‘O good Jesus, Lord and Master, remember thy mercies and the sweetness of thy beloved Mother and, by virtue of her pious intercessions, help me at this hour!’ There was no delay and the king, in a state of high excitement, arrived at his threshold, looked inside and - behold – the house in question was all lit up inside, as if it were on fire! As a result he was seized by very great terror and retreated in astonishment, calling out to her: ‘Do not, do not imagine, good woman, that I wish to make sport of you any more. The Lord God is your protector and your mighty helper.’ 71 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.9 Æthelthryth 2 advanced into her grace and favour a man distinguished by the glory of his life of sanctity, the most blessed hermit Cuthbert 1, when, in point of fact, he was not yet a bishop, and she supplied him with much assistance from out of the abundance of her private resources. Being skilled in handiwork, Æthelthryth 2 made with her own hands, but the technique of gold-embroidery, an outstanding and famous piece of work, namely a stole and maniple of matching materials of gold and precious stones, and she sent this work to be offered to Cuthbert 1 as a blessing in recognition of a deep-seated affection. 72 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.9 Being skilled in handiwork, Æthelthryth 2 made with her own hands, but the technique of gold-embroidery, an outstanding and famous piece of work, namely a stole and maniple of matching materials of gold and precious stones, and she sent this work to be offered to Cuthbert 1 as a blessing in recognition of a deep-seated affection. 73 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.10 Æthelthryth 2 entered the monastic community of the holy Abbess Æbbe 2 ... The monastic house was situated in the place which they call the city of Coldingham. She received the veil of the religious life from Bishop Wilfrid 2. 74 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.10 On account of her determination to become a nun, Ecgfrith 4 eventually permitted Æthelthryth 2 to leave him and enter the monastery of Coldingham. 75 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.10 Owine 1 followed in his mistress's [i.e. Æthelthryth 2]footsteps and returned to the monastic life, as we have related before, not having forgotten what manner of man he was. 76 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.11 King Ecgfrith 4, who had long been dedicated to chaste marriage with Æthelthryth 2, did not take kindly to divorce from his beloved spouse, and soon began to be immeasurably sorrowful and grief-stricken. Hence, at the suggestion and instigation of his people, he began to remove her forcibly from the convent, despite the fact that she was under the protection of the veil of holiness. Without delay, he went up to the convent where the holy virgin was living, with fury and hullabaloo, and in a great hurry. On hearing him coming, the mother of the community Æbbe 2, advised her that the only means of safety lay in escape. And, Æthelthryth 2 resolved to take action whereby she might remain a virgin for the rest of her life; nor must she rest until she reached her home in Ely. ... Forthwith, this woman who, the day before yesterday, had been mistress over a kingdom, in contempt of earthly sovereignty, entered the monastic life. ... The king, wishing to take her back as his wife, went into action, not failing to set out in pursuit, in the hope that he might perhaps be able to catch her. But the holy woman, groaning and anxious now with redoubled fear, fled under compulsion from her pleasant hiding place and went forth ... Having secretly made a circuit of the place, she came, accompanied by two handmaidens of God, Sewenna 1 and Sewara 1, to a high hill nearby called Coldeburcheshevet and climbed it. ... The sea, leaving its bed and now pouting forth it waters in many directions, surrounded the place up which the holy virgins had climbed, and, as we have learnt from local inhabitants, kept them hidden for seven days on end, without food or drink, as they took their stand together in prayer, and that ... it forgot how to ebb back in the usual manner, so long as the king remained there, or near the place. ... For a long time they had been on top of the summit of the rock and surrounded on all sides by a multitude of waves, and yet the king had found it quite impossible to find any direction from which to approach them. In the end, however, he retreated from the place marvelling at what had happened, and reduced to stupefaction. He Ecgfrith 4 returned to York and thereafter did not regard the confessor of the Lord, Wilfrid 2, favourably in confidential matters, nor with affection, as he had before, but instead for a considerable while harboured anger against him in his breast, and having bided his time, ejected him – the reason being such as we have described – from his Episcopal see. ... The time came when the nuns of the summit of the rock were beginning to duffer, being exceedingly feverish because of the dryness of thirst, so Æbbe 2 urged Æthelthryth 2 to pray to the Lord Christ ... And as she was most earnestly pouring out her prayer to God ... a spring of water straight away broke forth close to her, sparkling clear, and, in answer to her prayers ... the dry rock gushed forth what it did not naturally contain: water which was sufficient for the nuns’ use and did not fail to supply their needs. 77 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.11 Ecgfrith 4 returned to York and thereafter did not regard the confessor of the Lord, Wilfrid 2, favourably in confidential matters, nor with affection, as he had before, but instead for a considerable while harboured anger against him in his breast, and having bided his time, ejected him – the reason being such as we have described – from his Episcopal see. 78 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.11 Eventually, when he was deprived of all conviction that there could be a return to marriage with the holy queen, he took Eormenburg 1 to himself in wedlock. 79 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.13 Æthelthryth 2, Sewara 1 and Sewenna 1, fleeing from King Ecgfrith 4, crossed the Humber and arrived at Winteringham and then proceeded to Alftham where she built a church. Stopping one day she fell asleep and woke to find that her staff had taken root and sprouted leaves. That place became known as Ædeledrethestowe. 80 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.14 In a vision Adomnán 2 was told that his monastery at Coldingham was full of impiety. He told Abbess Æbbe 2 of this. At first the residents of Coldingham heeded this warning but, after the abbess’s death, reverted to their old ways. When Coldingham burnt down the fire was considered punishment for this lifestyle. 81 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.13 Æthelthryth 2 founded the church at West Halton. 82 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.15 Huna 3 gave Æthelthryth 2 advice pertaining to salvation and talked to her about the teachings and deeds of the saints. 83 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.15; I.17 Wærburg 4 joined Æthelthryth 2 at Ely and learnt from her the rule of the religious life. 84 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.15 Æthelthryth 2 rebuilt the earlier church and dedicated to Mary, Mother of God. The buildings were all new. With the help of her brother, King Ealdwulf 3, she built a good-sized house of monastic virgins. 85 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.15; I.16 Wilfrid 2 consecrated Æthelthryth 2 as abbess of Ely. 86 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.15 Victor 1 confirmed the liberties of Ely 87 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.17 Wulfhere 1 died. 88 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.17 Wulfhere 1 made Medeshamstede very rich in estates and ornaments, through the intermediacy of Seaxwulf 1, the first abbot and founder of the place and afterwards Bishop of the Mercians. 89 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.17 Seaxwulf 1 was the founder of Medeshamstede. 90 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.17 Peada 1 was murdered through treachery on the part of his wife at the time of the Easter festival. 91 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.15; I.18 Seaxburg 1 appointed her daughter Eormenhild 1 as abbess. 92 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.18 Seaxburg 1 went to Ely and entered the monastery under Æthelthryth 2. 93 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.19 Æthelthryth 2 prophesied the plague by which she was to die. 94 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.19 Wilfrid 2 was in exile for three years because of the disagreement between himself and King Ecgfrith 4 during which time he stayed for a while at Ely with Æthelthryth 2 before travelling to Rome where, by the judgement of Pope Benedict 2 and many others, he was found to be worthy of a bishopric. He then returned to Britain and converted the South Saxons to Christianity. 95 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.19 Wilfrid 2 converted the South Saxons to Christianity. 96 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.19 Wilfrid 2, at the request of Æthelthryth 2 brought back privileges of Benedict 2 for Ely. 97 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.19; I.20 Æthelthryth 2 died. 98 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.21 Cynefrith 2 lanced the swelling around Æthelthryth 2's jaw in order to relive her suffering. 99 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.21 Æthelthryth 2 died in 679. 100 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.22 Æthelthryth 2 was buried in the graveyard at Ely. The funeral was celebrated by her priest, Huna 3. 101 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.22 Huna 3's relics were translated from Huneia to Thorney. 102 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.23 King Ecgfrith 4 and King Æthelred 2 fought a grievous battle near the River Trent. 103 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.23 Ælfwine 4 was killed at the Battle of the Trent. 104 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.23 Imma 2 fell in the Battle of the Trent. He lay for a day and the following night as if dead, but eventually revived, getting his breath back, and bound up his own wounds as best he could. Then he stood up and began to walk, but he was quickly captured by men from the enemy army, and was brought to their lord, that is, a comes of King Æthelred 2. This comes took care of Imma 2's wounds but ordered him to be bound kept chained. 105 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.23 The chains in which Imma 2 had been bound could not hold him. When asked by the comes why this was so, Imma 2 explained that he had a brother, called Tunna 1, a priest and abbot of the monastery called Tunnacester who was celebrating frequent masses for him, believing him to have been killed. 106 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.23 The comes sold Imma 2 to a Frisian bound for London. Imma 2 could not be kept in chains by the Frisian either; at the hour at which masses were held, the chains fell off. 107 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.23 Finding that he could not hold him in fetters, the Frisian allowed Imma 2 the chance to ransom himself. Imma 2 swore oaths that he would return or send the Frisian money in place of himself and then went to Kent and approached King Hlothhere 1, who was the son of Queen Æthelthryth 2's sister, while Imma 2 was a former retainer of the queen, that is, her butler. And he sought and received from him the money required for ransoming himself and sent it to the Frisian as promised. 108 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.23 Imma 2 told Tunna 1 everything that had happened to him, and realised that his chains had been unfastened at exactly the times when masses had been celebrated for him. 109 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.23 Ælgetus 1's body rested at Bedericesworthe. 110 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.24 King Æthelred 2 took Wærburg 4 from Ely and put her in charge of certain monastic communities of virgins in the office of abbess, namely Hanbury and Threekingham. 111 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.26-27 Seaxburg 1 ordered certain brothers to look for stone from which to make a new tomb for St Æthelthryth 2. The brothers bordered a boat and came to a little city called Grantchester [Grantecester] and, while they were walking around it, they soon discovered by the walls of that town a sarcophagus of white marble most beautifully equipped with a cover. When Æthelthryth 2 was exhumed her body was found to be incorrupt. 112 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.28 Æthelthryth 2 was translated and placed in the church of the blessed Mary. 113 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.34 Archbishop Theodore 1 heard that Constantinople was greatly disturbed by heresy in the year in which Æthelthryth 2 died. 114 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.34 Seaxburg 1 was buried behind her sister, Æthelthryth 2. 115 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.36 Seaxburg 1 received the veil from Archbishop Theodore 1 in the church of Sheppey. 116 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.36 Seaxburg 1 built the church of Sheppey. 117 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.36 When Eormenhild 1 was preparing for her journey to Ely, she installed her daughter Wærburg 4 to serve as abbess in her place. 118 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.36 Eormenhild 1 died. 119 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.36 Eormenhild 1 was buried at Ely next to her aunt, Æthelthryth 2, and mother Seaxburg 1. 120 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.39 In 866 ... when King Æthelred 15 was ruler of the Western Saxons, there arrived in Britain a fleet of pagans from Denmark under King Ivar 1, together with his two brothers, Eowils 2, Halfdan 2, and a man called Ubba 5, his colleague in all trickery and malice and very like him in all respects, having as companions those three kings, Hæsten 1, Bagsecg 1 and Guthrum 1 and their forces, together with a very large contingent of chieftans and nobles ... They were accompanied by an immense multitude of bold warriors and they spent the winter in the kingdom of the East Angles. 121 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.39 The pagans moved from the territory of the East Angles to York, and from there ... the vast majority of the communities of the Northumbrians were destroyed and met their end, their two kings, Osberht 6 and Ælle 3, having been put to death. 122 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.39 King Burgred 5 entered into a pact with the pagans. 123 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.39 Seven years after he had made a pact with them, the pagans forced King Burgred 5 to abandon his kingdom and go, against his will, to Rome, and they subjected the kingdom of the Mercians to their domination. 124 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.39 King Edmund 6 was killed by King Ivar 1. 125 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.39 Gathering a good sized army, [King Æthelred 15] attacked the enemy at Ashdown, where a battle was fought with ferocity on both sides. In that place, the pagans, by divine judgement, failed to withstand the attack of the Christians, and one of the two pagan kings, namely Ubba 5 and five earls were struck down dead. There fell, then: King Bagsecg 1, Earl Sidroc 1 the elder, Earl Sidroc 2 the younger, Earl Osbern 1, Earl Fræna 2, and Earl Harald 1; and all their army was routed. 126 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.39 At Ashdown were killed: King Bagsecg 1, Earl Sidroc 1 the elder, Earl Sidroc 2 the younger, Earl Osbern 1, Earl Fræna 2, and Earl Harald 1. 127 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.39 King Æthelred 15 died. 128 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.42 Edward 2 slew two king, namely Eowils 2 and Halfdan 2. 129 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.42 Edward 2 died in the 24th year of his reign. 130 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.42 Edward 2 bequeathed his kingdom to his son Æthelstan 18. 131 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.42 When Ælfgifu 3 had given birth to Edgar 11, Dunstan 1 heard voices of heavenly beings singing psalms and saying, 'Peace of the English in the time of the boy now born and of our Dunstan 1.' 132 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.42 Edgar 11 founded many monasteries. 133 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.42 King Edgar 11 restored the church of Ely most gloriously and made it rich in possessions. 134 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.42 King Edmund 14 was killed. 135 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.42 King Edmund 14 was buried at Glastonbury by Abbot Dunstan 1. 136 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.42 In the time of Eadred 16, something marvellous and most astonishing happened at Ely concerning the priests living there, which one of them, called Ælfhelm 23, who had been complicit in their error and crime, owned up to and set down in writing, referring to himself covertly in the third person. 137 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.42 Æthelthryth 2, Seaxburg 1, and Eormenhild 1 were buried at Ely. 138 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.43-49 The archpriest at Ely refused to believe that the tomb of St Æthelthryth 2 contained her remains, saying that if it did more miracles would have occurred at the site. An old man recounted stories of miracles performed there, but the archpriest continued and with the help of four young clerics 'whom he led with ease to ruin and condemnation by the crime which he perpetrated.' 139 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.44 A certain married woman was cured of paralysis at the tomb of St Æthelthryth 2. 140 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.45 A young man from 'Bradeford' (Anonymous 10036) was cured of dumbness at the tomb of St Æthelthryth 2. 141 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.46 A girl, blind from birth, was cured at the tomb of St Æthelthryth 2. 142 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.47 A young man was cured of his withered hand at the tomb of St Æthelthryth 2. 143 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.48 A servant-girl whilst gathering vegetables for her master, a priest, found that her hand became stuck to the stake she was using. She remained in this state for five years. She was eventually cured at the tomb of St Æthelthryth 2. 144 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.49 A Northman tried to smash open the tomb of St Æthelthryth 2, believing it to be full of treasure. As soon as he had made a small hole in it with his axe he lost his eyes and his life. 145 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.50 King Eadred 16 fell sick and died in the 10th year of his reign. 146 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.50 King Eadwig 4 died after a four-year reign. 147 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.50 King Eadwig 4 was buried at Winchester in the new minster. 148 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.50 King Edgar 11, having been properly instructed by the blessed Dunstan 1, enacted just laws for the kingdom of the English and kept control, all the time, over a kingdom that was in a most tranquil state. 149 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.50 King Edgar 11 restored and enriched the churches which had been destroyed. 150 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.50 The complainings of clerics were cast out of the monasteries, and then Edgar 11 gathered together companies of monks and nuns for the praise of God. 151 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.50 King Cynegils 1 was converted to Christianity by St Birinus 1. 152 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II prologue Æthelwold 1 restored the church at Ely after its destruction by the Danes. 153 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.1 Æthelwold 1 initiated some monasteries from their foundations; others, which had been destroyed or left deserted, he rebuilt by painstaking restoration ... One of those he restored was the monastic community of Ely. 154 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.2 Two of King Edgar 11’s magnates, Bishop Sigewald 5, a Greek by nationality, and Thurstan 6, a Dane, having seen the state of the place [Ely], asked the king for it, more out of greed than devotion. And as they were contending for it with identical ambition, a certain man called Wulfstan 16 of Dalham, who was a secretis of the king, intervened ... To prevent the king from granting them the objectives of their petition ... he gave the king an ordered account of the dignity of the monastery and the sanctity of its relics ... The king, on hearing this, was enflamed by divine fervour, and he not only repeatedly refused to give the aforesaid men what they had requested, but kept on saying that he would add to the greatness of the place in question. 155 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.3 King Edgar 11 conferred with Æthelwold 1 about the restoration of Ely and then carefully had it built anew, expelling the clerics who had been living there in an unworthy fashion for a considerable time, and installing monks. 156 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.3 King Edgar 11 appointed Beorhtnoth 19 as abbot of the monks of Ely. 157 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.3 Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 enriched Ely by buying and receiving lands from the king and others. He also gave a number of ornaments for the enactment of divine office. 158 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.4 / LÆ 4 King Edgar 11 to Bishop Æthelwold 1 ; sale of 20 hides within the isle of Ely, the soke of two hundreds within the isle and of five-and-a-half in the province of the East Angles, 5 hides at Melbourn, 3.5 hides at Armingford, and 12 hides at Northwold, in return for 60 hides at Harting, Sussex, 100 pounds, and a gold cross filled with relics. King Edgar 11 made a free-will offering of this cross, along with a gospel-book. 159 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.4 / LÆ 4 King Edgar 11 to Bishop Æthelwold 1 ; sale of 20 hides within the isle of Ely, the soke of two hundreds within the isle and of five-and-a-half in the province of the East Angles, 5 hides at Melbourn, 3.5 hides at Armingford, and 12 hides at Northwold, in return for 60 hides at Harting, Sussex, 100 pounds, and a gold cross filled with relics. King Edgar 11 made a free-will offering of this cross, along with a gospel-book. 160 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.4 / LÆ 4 King Æthelstan 18 to Bishop Æthelwold 1; grant of 60 hides at Harting, Sussex. 161 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.6 Archbishop Dunstan 1 and Æthelwold 1, bishop of Winchester, consecrated Beorhtnoth 19 abbot of the church of Ely. He was appointed by King Edgar 11. 162 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.6 Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 sought to make [the church at Ely] resplendent with diverse ornaments. For he made statues of the blessed virgins and, at very great cost, overlaid them with gold and silver and jewels and set them up near the high altar, two to the right and two to the left. 163 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.7 / LÆ 5 King Edgar 11 to God and St Æthelthryth 2; grant of 40 hides of land in the district which is called Hatfield (Herts.). The land had been bequeathed to the king by Ordmær 2 and his wife Æalde 1. 164 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.7 / LÆ 5 Ordmær 2 and his wife Æalde 1 to King Edgar 11; bequest of 40 hides at Hatfield (Herts.). 165 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.7 / LÆ 5 Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 and his brothers laid claim to the 40 hides at Hatfield (Herts.) which King Edgar 11 had granted to Ely 1, saying that their father, Ealdorman Æthelstan 26, had acquired the land in exchange for his inheritance, which was in the region called Devon, but that King Edgar 11 had forcibly deprived him of it. When, therefore, their claim had been set forth in narrative and demonstration, the claimants prevailed and, ignoring the respect due to the Holy Church, seized the land and appropriated it for themselves. The brothers [of Ely], however, seeing that they could in no way be deprived of the land without great loss, in view of the fact that they did not have forest elsewhere from which they could meet their needs, made a request to the aforementioned Æthelwine 2 and, when agreement with him had been reached, bought from him the land at Hatfield. They gave for it two pieces of land which Wulfstan 16 of Dalham gave to Ely 1 when he died, namely 30 hides at Hemingford Abbots, and 6 at Wennington, adding, as well, 5 hides at Yelling which Wulfwine 8 cocus and his wife Ælfswith 13 forfeited for their wrongdoing, on many counts and with the public as witness. These proceedings were transacted in the place which is called Slaughter (Gloucs.), in the presence of Ealdorman Ælfhere 10, Æthelwine 2, and Ælfric Cild 2 ... and in the presence of the whole retinue accompanying them. In order, moreover, that this agreement should be fixed and incontestable, Æthelmær 13 Cild and Ælfwald 42 were guarantors and witnesses of this matter. 166 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.7 / LÆ 5 Wulfstan 16 of Dalham to Ely 1; bequest of 30 hides at Hemingford Abbots, and 6 at Wennington. 167 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.7 / LÆ 5 Wulfwine 8 cocus and his wife Ælfswith 13 forfeited 5 hides at Yelling for their wrongdoing, on many counts and with the public as witness. 168 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.8 / LÆ 6 Æthelwold 1 bought from Leofric 61 of Brandon, the son of Æthelfrith 26, 12 hides at Linden End (Cambs.), with its dependencies, Hill, Witcham, and Wilburton, in exchange for 100 mancuses, a very fine horse, and the land at Bishampton (Worcs.) which Leofric 61’s wife, Æthelflæd 25 had previously sold to him. This purchase and agreement was thus effected in the place called Cambridge, in the presence of the better people of the district. 169 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.8 / LÆ 6 Æthelflæd 25 sold land at Bishampton to Bishop Æthelwold 1. 170 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.8 / LÆ 6 After the death of King Edgar 11, Leofric 61 of Brandon tried, unsuccessfully, to annul the whole of the agreement which he had made with Bishop Æthelwold 1. But the lawmen Eadric 50 Rufus, Leofric 62 of Berle, and Sigefrith 22 the Mad, who had been involved in this matter and had been witnesses, declared him to be guilty. 171 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.10 / LÆ 7 Bishop Æthelwold 1 dedicated the church of Leofric 61 and his wife Æthelflæd 25 at Brandon. 172 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.10 / LÆ 7 After Bishop Æthelwold 1 dedicated Leofric 61’s church at Brandon, Leofric 61 offered him a silver bowl. The bishop declined but asked instead for Leofric 61’s permission so that he could buy from Leofric 61’s sisters, the 8 hides at Streatham which Leofric 61 had bequeathed to them on his death. To this Leofric 61 agreed. 173 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.10 / LÆ 7 Bishop Æthelwold 1 bought 8 hides at Streatham from the sisters of Leofric 61: Æthelflæd 26 and Æthelgifu 16. He gave each sister 30 pounds of silver for the land and her share of the stock. ‘This money was given and paid in full to the sisters in Cambridge. When the small son of Wulfsige 58 and Æthelflæd 26 [Anonymous 10043] was brought to that place, the bringers of the boy and his aunt Æthelgifu 16 received 30 pounds and took the money, with the boy, to his mother, that is, Æthelflæd 26.’ 174 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.10 / LÆ 8 Bishop Æthelwold 1 bought 1 hide and 2 weirs at Streatham from Ælfwald 63 of Mardleybury for 20 mancuses in the presence of the whole populace of the city of Cambridge, and 2 brothers with the same name – that is to say two Ælfhelms [Ælfhelm 8 and Ælfhelm 24] – one of whom had the additional name Polga – were sureties for this matter. 175 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.10 / LÆ 8 After the death of King Edgar 11, this same Ælfwald 63 broke the whole agreement, saying that he had been forced to do this, and that violence and pillage had been inflicted upon him. He said, too, that he wished to keep the land and return the money which he had received. Then Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 set out and took proceedings against him at Hertford and, in the presence of everyone at a general meeting, put it to him how his wife [Anonymous 10042] and sons [Anonymi 10027, Ælfwine 56 and Æthelmær 34] had been estate-born slaves [innati] on land belonging to St Æthelthryth 2 at Hatfield and how it had been in order that he might have them free and without claim on them that he had sold the land to the bishop on receipt of 20 mancuses from the bishop. Consequently, after this explanation had been given a hearing, Ælfwald 63 ceased his impudence and, at length, in the final agreement that was made, Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 added 40 solidi to the aforementioned gold and gave it to him. Ælfwald 63’s two sons, Ælfwine 56 and Æthelmær 34, came to Cambridge for this money, and Ælfweard 40 and Wine 11 of Witchford brought it to them there on behalf of the abbot. And the witnesses of this matter were Oswig 12 and Oscytel 8 of Beche [Landbeach and Waterbeach, Cambs.], and Oswulf 29 of Gretton and many other proceres of that region. 176 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.10 / LÆ 9 Wulfflæd 7, widow of Sigefrith 22, sold 24 acres to Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 on the same day that she became a nun. 177 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.10 / LÆ 9 Wulfstan 56, acquired 24 acres at Stretham in the time of King Æthelstan 18. 178 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 10 Bishop Æthelwold 1 from Leofsige 28 and his wife Sifflæd 2; purchase of 2 hides at Downham for 15 pounds. Leofwine 75, provost, and Wine 11 of Witchford, brought him 10 pounds of that money. A payment date was set for the remaining 5 pounds. 179 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 10 Leofsige 28 and Sifflæd 2, his wife, from Bishop Æthelwold 1; purchase of 5 hides at Clayhithe for 15 pounds, on condition that Æthelwold 1 give them a silver cup worth 40 solidi which Beorhtsige 25, father of Leofsige 28, bequeathed to the bishop on his death. 180 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 10 Beorhtsige 25 bequeathed a silver cup worth 40 solidi to Bishop Æthelwold 1. 181 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 10 A summary of the dispute between Bishop Æthelwold 1 and Leofsige 28 and Sifflæd 2. Æthelwold 1 from Leofsige 28 and his wife Sifflæd 2; purchase of 2 hides at Downham for 15 pounds. Leofwine 75, provost, and Wine 11 of Witchford, brought him 10 pounds of that money. A payment date was set for the remaining 5 pounds. At a second meeting Leofsige 28 and Sifflæd 2, his wife, purchase from Bishop Æthelwold 1 5 hides at Clayhithe for 15 pounds, on condition that Æthelwold 1 give them a silver cup worth 40 solidi which Beorhtsige, father of Leofsige 28, bequeathed to the bishop on his death. Before Leofsige 28 and Sifflæd 2 handed back the 10 pounds, King Edgar 11 died, and the couple made void the whole agreement that they had had with the bishop. In the meantime Leofsige 28 seized Peterborough, Oundle and Kettering from God and St Peter. A meeting was convened in London where, it being a time when duces, principles, satrape, rhetores and causidici had gathered from every region, Æthelwold 1 summoned the aforesaid Leofsige 28 to justice. The witan restored Peterborough, Oundle, and Kettering to Æthelwold 1 and ruled that Leofsige 28 should pay compensation to the bishop to the value of his ‘mund’, and for the violence pay compensation to the king to the amount of his wergild. They met again within 8 days at Northampton, where the people of that region gave the same verdict as had been given at London. Then Leofsige 28 died shamefully and miserably after which time Æthelwold 1 and Ealdorman Æthelwine 2, with the shire of Northampton and the most prominent men of the East Angles, held at Wansford a meeting of the 8 hundreds. It was decided that Sifflæd 2, widow of Leofsige 28, and her heirs, ought to pay compensation to God and the bishop, just as Leofsige 28 would have done had he lived. They assessed the amount of damage to the bishop at more than 100 pounds. Sifflæd 2 asked the bishop that she might pay the compensation which was due from her, in addition to what her sons [Anonymi 10028] owed, with the 100 solidi which the bishop had been going to give her for the 2 hides at Downham. The bishop remitted the whole of the damage which had been awarded against her and, in addition, said to her that she could come to Ely within 8 days and collect the 100 solidi from Abbot Beorhtnoth 19. This she did before the witness of 2 hundreds. The bishop also gave her 7 pounds for her corn which was on the land at Downham. 182 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 10 Leofsige 28 seized Peterborough, Oundle and Kettering from God and St Peter (i.e. Peterborough). 183 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 10 A meeting was convened in London where, it being a time when duces, principles, satrape, rhetores and causidici had gathered from every region, Æthelwold 1 summoned the aforesaid Leofsige 28 to justice. The witan restored Peterborough, Oundle, and Kettering to Æthelwold 1 and ruled that Leofsige 28 should pay compensation to the bishop to the value of his ‘mund’, and for the violence pay compensation to the king to the amount of his wergild. They met again within 8 days at Northampton, where the people of that region gave the same verdict as had been given at London. 184 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 11 Leofsige 28 died shamefully and miserably. 185 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 11 Æthelwold 1 and Ealdorman Æthelwine 2, with the shire of Northampton and the most prominent men of the East Angles, held at Wansford a meeting of the 8 hundreds. It was decided that Sifflæd 2, widow of Leofsige 28, and her heirs, ought to pay compensation to God and the bishop, just as Leofsige 28 would have done had he lived. They assessed the amount of damage to the bishop at more than 100 pounds. Sifflæd 2 asked the bishop that she might pay the compensation which was due from her, in addition to what her sons [Anonymi 10028] owed, with the 100 solidi which the bishop had been going to give her for the 2 hides at Downham. The bishop remitted the whole of the damage which had been awarded against her and, in addition, said to her that she could come to Ely within 8 days and collect the 100 solidi from Abbot Beorhtnoth 19. This she did before the witness of 2 hundreds. The bishop also gave her 7 pounds for her corn which was on the land at Downham. 186 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 12 Sigefrith 23 of Downham to Ely and St Æthelthryth 2; bequest of 2 hides at Downham for the sake of his soul. He chose to be buried at Ely. 187 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 12 After the death of Goding 4 of Gretton, Sigefrith 23 came to Ely and asked the brothers to take him to his burial place for they had been friends. There he renewed his bequest of 2 hides at Downham in the presence of witnesses. On the same day Sigefrith 23 again renewed his agreement in the presence of the better people of his region beyond Upware, in the place which is called Hyravicstowe. 188 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 12 Sigefrith 23 asked to be buried at Ely. 189 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 12 Goding 4 died. 190 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 12 Goding 4 was buried at Ely. 191 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 12 On his deathbed at Linden, Sigefrith 23 sent for Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 and the brothers of the church. The abbot arranged for the will of Sigefrith 23 to be written down in a tripartite chirograph, in the presence of his wife [Wulfflæd 7] and his daughter [Anonymous 10044]. When it was read, he had it cut, and Sigefrith 23 kept one part of the chirograph, giving the second part to the abbot. The third part he sent at once by the aforesaid Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 to Ealdorman Æthelwine 2, who at that time was dwelling at Ely and asked him to allow his will to stand, just as the abbot had written it and set it down at Linden in the witness of the aforementioned men. Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 sent Wulfnoth 23 of Stowe back there to him with Beorhtnoth 19 and asked him what it was he wanted concerning his will and what conditions. Sigefrith 23 replied through Wulfnoth 23 and Beorhtnoth 19 that he wanted his will to stand just as it had been set down. Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 granted that it should stand in its entirety. 192 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 13 Bishop Æthelwold 1 and Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 sought to buy 2 hides at Downham held jointly by two brothers, Ælfric 123 and Leofwine 76, the sons of Hereric 2, comes. Ælfric 123, the elder brother, exchanged lands with his brother, giving him land at Chippenham which their mother [Anonymous 10046] had bequeathed. Later Ælfric 123 was burdened with a heavy imposition of tax and offered Æthelwold 1 and Beorhtnoth 19 the 2 hides at Downham in return for 3 hides which they had at Chippenham on condition they give him an additional sum of money. Æthelwold 1 and Beorhtnoth 19 exchanged the lands and gave Ælfric 123 4 pounds. This agreement and exchange was made close by Cambridge to the south, in the presence of the whole populace of that region. Ælfric 123 granted the land to Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 before 24 judges [Anonymi 10029] in the aforesaid place, and then did the same in the presence of witnesses. Bishop Æthelwold 1 gave him 10 solidi and Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 gave him 20 solidi of sheep and a horse worth 10 solidi. Ælfric 123 thus received 6 pounds and 3 hides at Chippenham. The abbot and Ælfric 123 exchanged cattle and the grain which was in the storehouses in the two places, that is Ælfric 123 surrendered 15 cart-loads of grain at Downham to the abbot and the abbot gave up the same amount at Chippenham. Ælfric 123 also handed over 30 acres of sown land and the abbot the same amount at Chippenham, and gave him 48 as a gift. 193 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 13 Anonymous 10046 bequeathed land at Chippenham to her son Ælfric 123. 194 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 13 Ælfric 123, the elder brother, exchanged lands with his brother, giving him land at Chippenham which their mother [Anonymous 10046] had bequeathed, in return for the land at Downham which they had previously held jointly. 195 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11a / LÆ 14 Wine 13 bought 80 acres with 5 farms at Chippenham from Leofsige 32 of Freckenham for 100 solidi. 196 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11a / LÆ 14 Wine 13 bought 20 acres and 1 plot with houses on it at Chippenham from Ælfric 125 of Witcham for 20 solidi. 197 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11a / LÆ 14 Wine 13 bought 10 acres at Chippenham from Wulfhelm 28, the brother of Wulfwine 9 for 10 solidi. 198 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11a / LÆ 14 Ælfwald 64 the Fat, and his wife [Anonymous 10047], met Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 at Horningsea and agreed to sell him 3 hides at Chippenham. It was agreed that the abbot would give them 300 solidi and agreed to complete at Chippenham 8 days later when his wife would go there to receive 15 pounds and hand over to the abbot the 3 hides, for it was she who had the greater right to that land, through marriage to another husband [Anonymous 10048]. On the appointed day she brought with her witnesses [see below]. Two men, Brunstan 4 of Soham and Glor 1, stood up and protested on behalf of Ulf 16, and prohibited the woman from selling, and the abbot from buying, 75 acres of land. They also prohibited the sale of 7 acres of land to 2 villagers. It was also claimed that the woman did not have 3 hides to sell. Having taken council, the abbot gave her half the money, retaining the other half until she could give him 3 hides in tact and without claim. If she were not able to do this, she would be awarded a sum of money corresponding to the value of the land. The next day the land was measured by supporters of both sides and it was found to amount to only 127 acres and another 24 acres; the land subject to claim was 82 acres. Ulf 16 ordered his men to cultivate his 75 acres. Ulf 16 owed the abbot 37 acres as a supplementary payment additional to 2 hides at Milton which he had exchanged with the abbot for 2 hides and 37 acres at Fordham. He also owed a debt to the abbot for 20 solidi which he had supplied to him and sent through Ælfric 126, son of Edwin 37. The abbot asked him to give up the 75 acres in exchange for the 37 acres and 20 solidi that he owed, on the condition that Ulf 16 deliver the land without challenge. If he were unable to do this and the woman were awarded title to the land, the abbot would buy the land from her, just as they had agreed. When Ælfwald 64 and his wife found out that they were going to lose the land because of Ulf 16’s claim, they withdrew from their arrangement with the abbot and went to their lord, Ælfwald 42, brother of Ealdorman Æthelwine 2, and told him that the abbot had deceived them, that Ulf 16 had claimed the land at his instigation, and that the abbot had agreed upon 15 pounds for the land. Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 and his brother Ælfwald 42, and Abbot Beorhtnoth 19, and all the seniors of East Anglia and Cambridge, went to Freckenham, and from there to Hegentune where 3 hundreds were assembled. The abbot produced the earlier witnesses who corroborated his version of events. Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 then asked the abbot, for love of him, to increase by a little the 7.5 pounds he had already given Ælfwald 64 the Fat’s wife. Beorhtnoth 19 gave her 30 solidi and sent it to her by Wine 14 of Ely, son of Osmund 17, who took it to Cambridge and gave it to her publicly, in front of her husband. 199 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11a / LÆ 14 Ulf 16 was to give 2 hides and 37 acres at Milton to Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 in exchange for 2 hides and 37 acres at Fordham. 200 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11a / LÆ 14 Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 sent Ulf 16 20 solidi through Ælfric 126, son of Edwin 37. 201 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11 / LÆ 12 Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 was dwelling at Ely. 202 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.12 / LÆ 15 Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 bought 200 acres at Witchford from Sumerlida 2 for 11 pounds in the time of King Edgar 11. But when the king died, Sumerlida 2 annulled the agreement, saying that he had been compelled. Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 came to Ely and held a meeting with the whole hundred in the churchyard at the northern gate of the monastery, and there adjudicated upon the action and suit which existed between the abbot and Sumerlida 2. The abbot gave Sumerlida 2 30 solidi [recte 20 solidi] and so paid him in full the 12 pounds for the 200 acres. 203 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.12 / LÆ 16 Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 exchanged 16 acres in Witchford for the same amount in Cambridge with Osmund 18 on condition that on Osmund 18's death the abbot would have both properties. 204 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.11a / LÆ 14 Æthelstan 69 bequeathed 100 acres to Ely. 205 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.14 / LÆ 19 Edward 21 and Beorhtfrith 12 leased 50 acres at Witcham. 206 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.15 Wulfsige 59, Mawa 1, and their son, Ælfsige 92, granted 3 hides at Sutton to Ely 1 and Abbot Beorhtnoth 19. 207 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.16 / LÆ 20 The Provost Leofwine 75 bought a farm at Hill and Haddenham from Wulfheah 15 of Hill for 160 solidi and another 70 acres for 10 solidi. 208 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.16 / LÆ 22 Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 bought 76 acres with a farm at Haddenham from Æthelwulf 33 and his wife Burgflæd 1 for 7 pounds. The money was given at Thetford. These acres were measured by the priest Manne 2. 209 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.16 / LÆ 21 In Hill and Haddenham, the brothers of Ely 1 bought nearly all the land of Ælfsige 93, and very many acres from the poorer villagers [Anonymi 10030] there. 210 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.16 / LÆ 22 Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 leased the 76 acres at Haddenham to Grim 8, son of Wine 15, so that he might have the income from them so long as he served them well. 211 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.17 / LÆ 23 Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 bought 2 hides of 240 arable acres, in addition to meadows, at Wilburton, from Ælfwine 59 and his wife Sifflæd 3 for 90 manscuses and 5 farms with buildings. 212 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.17 / LÆ 24 Bishop Æthelwold 1 bought 70 acres at Wilburton from Oppele 1. 213 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.17 / LÆ 25 Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 gave Ælfric 128 of Sutton land at Witcham in exchange for 80 acres at Wilburton. 214 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.17 / LÆ 26 The brothers of Ely 1 bought 70 acres at Wilburton from Eading 1. 215 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.18 / LÆ 27 Æscwynn 2 of Stonea, a widow, gave Wulfstan 16 of Dalham land at Stonea with a fishery. 216 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.18 / LÆ 27 Ogga 2 of Mildenhall to Ely 1, grant of 1 hide at Cambridge. Originally he intended to bequeath it after his death but Wulfstan 16 of Dalham persuaded him to give it whilst he lived. After his death the grant was contested by his relative Ufi 6. 217 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.18 / LÆ 28 Ufi 6 claimed 1 hide at Cambridge which his relative, Ogga 2 of Mildenhall, had granted to Ely 1. At Cambridge, in the presence of Wulfstan 16 of Dalham, the case was heard and it was adjudged that Ufi 6 should pay 4 marks as a penalty because he never laid claim while Ogga 2 was alive. After the death of King Edgar 11, Ufi 6 came to the abbot of Ely and laid claim to the land. The abbot took counsel with the two hundreds and Oswig 12 and Oscytel 8 of Beche. By their testimony, the abbot was adjudged the owner, as Ogga 2 had lawfully bought the land from Ufi 6 and held it unchallenged whilst he lived. 218 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.19 / LÆ 29 Oslac 10 was accused before King Edgar 11, and the king ordered that he be dispossessed of all his land and deprived of all his possessions. 219 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.19 / LÆ 29 Oslac 10 was accused before King Edgar 11, and the king ordered that he be dispossessed of all his land and deprived of all his possessions. Oslac 10 asked Bishop Æthelwold 1 to be his intercessor and defender with the king. This the bishop did and the king restored everything to Oslac 10 for love of Bishop Æthelwold 1, on condition that Oslac 10 paid Edgar 11 100 mancuses. 220 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.19 / LÆ 29 Oslac 10 was accused before King Edgar 11, and the king ordered that he be dispossessed of all his land and deprived of all his possessions. Oslac 10 asked Bishop Æthelwold 1 to be his intercessor and defender with the king. This the bishop did and the king restored everything to Oslac 10 for love of Bishop Æthelwold 1, on condition that Oslac 10 paid Edgar 11 100 mancuses. Oslac 10, lacking the funds, borrowed 40 mancuses from the bishop and promised to give him 40 acres at Cambridge, and a farm and the third part of a wood at Dullingham. He sent Hawerd 2, his kinsman, to Ely to give the land to the bishop on behalf of Oslac 10. After the death of King Edgar 11, Oslac 10 annulled the gift. The abbot of Ely [Beorhtnoth 19] sent Wine 18 to him and to Ordhelm 6 and his sons [Anonymi 10031] and asked them to appear against Oslac 10 by the bridge at Cambridge. Oslac 10 denied making a gift of the land but admitted liability for the debt of 40 mancuses and asked that the 40 acres and land at Dullingham be assessed. They were valued at 26 mancuses and Oslac 10 agreed to pay the remaining 14 mancuses. 221 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.20 / LÆ 30 The brothers of Ely 1 bought from Burghelm 6 a farm at Witcham with 70 acres. 222 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.20 / LÆ 30 The brothers of Ely 1 bought from Beorhtlaf 3 a farm at Cambridge, with 30 acres, giving him in exchange a farm at Witcham with 70 acres. 223 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.20 / LÆ 31 The brothers of Ely 1 bought from the son [Anonymous 10049] of Bishop Æthelmær 35, 7 acres at Cambridge. Each acre cost 16 pence. 224 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.20 / LÆ 31 The brothers of Ely 1 bought from Sifflæd 4, 7 acres at Cambridge. Each acre cost 16 pence. 225 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.20 / LÆ 31 The brothers of Ely 1 bought from Hungifu 2, a widow, 5 acres at Cambridge. She also gave 10 acres and weir-rights with the proviso that she could have an income from the monastery for as long as she lived. 226 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.21 / LÆ 32 Abbot [Beorhtnoth 19] bought from Gunulf 1 60 acres at Doddington and Wimblington and a weir yielding 1000 eels. 227 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.21 / LÆ 32 Abbot [Beorhtnoth 19] gave Wine 14, son of Osmund 17, 60 acres at Doddington and Wimblington and a weir yielding 1000 eels in return for 53 acres at Cambridge and weir worth 1000 eels. 228 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.21 / LÆ 32 Eanflæd 2 bequest to in Wine 14 part of 53 acres at Cambridge and weir worth 1000 eels. Wine 14 bought the remainder from his kinsman [Anonymous 10050]. 229 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.21 / LÆ 32 Eanflæd 2 bequest of 5 acres [at Cambridge?] to Ely 1. 230 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.21 / LÆ 32 Wine 14 grant to Ely 1 of 8 acres at Hill. 231 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.21 / LÆ 32 The brothers of Ely 1 bought 5 acres at Hill from the son [Anonymous 10051] of Ælfstan 72. 232 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.22 / LÆ 33 Bishop Oscytel 5 bequeathed the land at Beeby to Bishop Æthelwold 1. 233 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.22 / LÆ 33 Abbot Thurcytel 4 of Ramsey [recte Bedford] sold to Bishop Æthelwold 1 1 hide at Doddington and a half-share of Wæremere and all its marshes, on condition that he be permitted to hold the land at Beeby. 234 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.22 / LÆ 33 Abbot [Beorhtnoth 19] and the whole community of Ely 1 granted 1 hide at Doddington to Wine 20 so that it might provide him with clothes. 235 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.23 / LÆ 33 Abbot [Beorhtnoth 19] bought 10 acres at Wimblington and 2 fisheries from the monks of Ramsey 1 for 20 solidi. 236 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.24 / LÆ 34 The clerics of Ely 1 leased the fenland at Stonea to kinsmen [Anonymi 10032] of Æscwynn 2 of Stonea for 2000 eels. 237 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.24 The clerics of Ely 1 leased the fenland at Stonea to kinsmen [Anonymi 10032] of Æscwynn 2 of Stonea for 2000 eels. These people held it for nearly 15 years before Bishop Æthelwold 1 took possession of Ely, and afterwards they held it under him until the time after King Edgar 11 had died. After Edgar 11’s death, Beahmund 2 of Holland and the kinsmen of the widow, unlawfully deprived Ely 1 of the land at Stonea without adjudication or the legal consent of the citizens and the hundred-men. Then Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 came to Ely, and Beahmund 2 and the others had been summoned many times, but never came. The abbot [Beorhtnoth 19] kept restating the suit at meetings. In the end Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 came to Cambridge and held a meeting of the citizens and hundred-men before 24 judges [Anonymi 10029] below Therningefeld and Maideneberge. It was decided that the land should be returned to the abbot and that Beahmund 2 and the kinsmen should pay the abbot his fish for six years, and full compensation, and pay a fine to the king, and that if they refused they should be distrained and their property seized. Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 decreed that Oscytel 8 and Oswig 12 of Beche and Godhere 4 of Ely should go round the land and take the abbot over it. 238 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.25 / LÆ 35 Bishop Æthelwold 1 and Wulfnoth 25 met at Taunton and discussed the possibility of the bishop buying Bluntisham from him. When the agreement was made, a purchase price was settled of 30 pounds, and Wulfnoth 25 sent his elder son [Anonymous 10052] to Ely for the money, and there received 100 solidi from Abbot Beorhtnoth 19; the 25 pounds which remained were give afterwards in the presence of King Edgar 11. Wulfnoth 25 then granted Bluntisham to the bishop with charter. When this had been done, Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 gave to Wulfnoth 25, 7 pounds for all the holdings on the land at Bluntisham: men, stock, and grain. 239 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.25 / LÆ 35 When King Edgar 11 died, the sons [Anonymi 10033] of Boga 2 of Hemingford laid claim to Bluntisham, saying that their uncle, Tope 1 ought to have the land by right of inheritance as his grandmother [Anonymous 10053] had gone across from Bluntisham and petitioned King Edward 12 at Cambridge at the time when Earl Toli 1 had taken Huntingdonshire against the king by force and, for this reason, she should by right have held the land as her own. The wise and old men of the district who remembered well the time when Earl Toli 1 had been killed at the River Thames, pronounced all this spurious. They said, in addition, that King Edward 12 had conquered Huntingdonshire and brought it under his control before he took control of Cambridgeshire. They asserted that there was no land so free in the whole of Huntingdonshire that it could not be lost through forfeiture, apart from 2 hides at Bluntisham which Ælfsige 83 Cild held and another two near Spaldwick. And they decided that Wulfnoth 25 should give peaceful possession of Bluntisham to Bishop Æthelwold 1 or give back the money he had received. Then Ealdorman Byrhtnoth 1 and Ælfwald 65 and Eadric 55 called all of Huntingdonshire together. Wulfnoth 25 was summoned as were the sons of Boga 2. Wulfnoth 25 brought with him many loyal men (the better people of six hundreds), and the monk Leofsige 33 of Ely produced the charter of Bluntisham. The estate was then taken from the sons of Boga 2 for two reasons: they had lied in all they had said about Tope 1 and his grandmother; the person who had the charter was nearer to having the land than the one who did not. Then Wulfnoth 25 produced more than a thousand loyal men in order to establish his claim through sworn testimony, but the sons of Boga 2 would not accept the oath. Everyone decided, therefore, that Wulfnoth 25 should have Bluntisham. When this was all done, Bishop Æthelwold 1 gave Wulfnoth 25 40 solidi and a war-horse worth 3 marks because he had worked hard on this action and because he was about to cross the sea in the service of his lord. 240 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.25 / LÆ 35 Earl Toli 1 took Huntingdonshire by force from King Edward 12. 241 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.25 / LÆ 35 Earl Toli 1 was killed at the River Thames. 242 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.25 / LÆ 35 King Edward 12 had conquered Huntingdonshire and brought it under his control before he took control of Cambridgeshire. 243 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.25 / LÆ 35 After the death of King Edgar 11, it was suggested by relatives of Anonymous 10053 that she had gone across from Bluntisham and petitioned King Edward 12 at Cambridge at the time when Earl Toli 1 had taken Huntingdonshire against the king by force and, for this reason, she should by right have held the land as her own. 244 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.25 / LÆ 35 After the dispute over Bluntisham was resolved, Bishop Æthelwold 1 gave Wulfnoth 25 40 shillings and a war-horse worth 3 marks because he had worked hard on this action and because he was about to cross the sea in the service of his lord. 245 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.25 / LÆ 35 Wulfnoth 25 was about to cross the sea in the service of his lord. 246 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.26 / LÆ 37 Goding 5, a monk, when dying, bequeathed 1 hide at Toft to Ely 1. Later his son, Ælfnoth 35, wished to change this, so Abbot [Beorhtnoth 19] gave him 20 solidi at Cambridge, gave to him a full hide, omitting his own farm. 247 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.27 / LÆ 38 Eadric 56 the Tall of Essex bequeathed Hauxton with its stock to King Edgar 11 and sent the king a chirograph of his will. 248 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.27 / LÆ 38 Eadric 56 the Tall of Essex bequeathed Hauxton with its stock to King Edgar 11 and sent the king a chirograph of his will. After Eadric 56 had died, Bishop Æthelwold 1 bought from the king 4.5 hides at Hauxton and 3 hides at Newton for Ely 1 for 200 mancuses. But before the bishop and abbot had the charters and before the relevationes had been provided, King Edgar 11 died. Ælfwald 66, brother of Eadric 56, and some of his kinsmen, sought to separate the 3 hides at Newton and alienate them from Hauxton, resulting in a dispute of many years. Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 drew to the attention of many witnesses, that both properties had been given to the king as one manor. But the bishop and the abbot found it a serious difficultly that Ælfwald 66 and his kinsmen were in possession of the charters. The abbot [Beorhtnoth 19] offered Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 3 hides at Wangford if he would obtain the charters for him. Æthelwine 2 accepted Wangford but for many years the matter was the vexed subject of litigation and he failed to deliver the charters. At this time, Ealdorman Byrhtnoth 1 came to Ely. The abbot and brothers asked him to buy the charters from Ælfwald 66, saying that they would give to Ælfwald 66 the charter for Ramsey and Sproughton in Essex and 30 mancuses. Byrhtnoth 1 did this, adding 30 mancuses of his own gold, and acquired the charters for Ely 1. 249 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.27 / LÆ 38 The abbot [Beorhtnoth 19] offered Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 3 hides at Wangford if he would obtain the charters [for Hauxton and Newton] for him. Æthelwine 2 accepted Wangford but for many years the matter was the vexed subject of litigation and he failed to deliver the charters. 250 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.29 St Neot 1 found the monastery at Eynesbury. 251 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.29 Æthelwold 1 took monks from Ely to Eynesbury and established them under a prior in subjection to a rule. 252 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.29 Leofric 64 and Leofflæd 7 attended the dedication of the basilica at Eynesbury and asked Æthelwold 1 and Beorhtnoth 19 and begged them to establish monks there. Æthelwold 1 and Beorhtnoth 19 arranged for some to be sent for Ely and some from Thorney. Leofric 64 and Leofflæd 7 asked Æthelwold 1 and Beorhtnoth 19 to make provision for these monks and that the church would always be subject to Ely and that the prior would always be from the church at Ely unless someone suitable could be found from the number at Eynesbury. 253 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.29 Leofric 64 and Leofflæd 7 granted to Eynesbury, 2 hides at Eynesbury, 6 at Waresley, and 9 and Gamlingay. 254 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.30 / LÆ 39 Abbot [Beorhtnoth 19] appears to have dedicated the church of Leofric 64 at Eynesbury. 255 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.30 / LÆ 39 At the dedication of Leofric 64's church in Eynesbury, Abbot [Beorhtnoth 19] reminded Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 that he had not fulfilled the agreement by which he had been given the land at Wangford. Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 acknowledged this to be true and paid the abbot 30 mancuses for the land. 256 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.30 / LÆ 39 Æthelnoth 47 laid claim to Wangford and Abington, saying they were part of his inheritance. Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 replied that he had bought those lands and that no opposition had been made public to him, neither claim nor voicing of objections, whether consisting in the protection of rights by lord or by kin. 257 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.31 / LÆ 40 Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 and Wine 21 bought 2 hides and 37 acres at Fordham from Grim 9 the son of Oswulf 31, for 11 pounds with the witness of the vill and the hundred. 258 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.31 / LÆ 40 Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 exchanged the 2 hides and 37 acres at Fordham with Ulf 17 for 2 hides at Milton. 259 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.31 / LÆ 41 Abbot Thurcytel 4 to St Paul’s, London, bequest of 4 and a half hides at Milton so that he might join the community. 260 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.31 / LÆ 41 Abbot Thurcytel 4 was expelled from Bedford. 261 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.31 / LÆ 41 Abbot Thurcytel 4 asked of Bishop Ælfstan 40 of London that he might have rights in common with them and membership in the monastery where he had earlier bought for himself a place in the presbyterate. The bishop and the community refused. Thurcytel 4 then bequeathed the 4.5 hides at Milton to London so that he might join the community. This done he held the land from the brothers for as long as he lived giving them each year 20 solidi from its revenue. 262 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.31 / LÆ 41 Eadgifu 4, grandmother of King Edgar 11,bequeathed to, Ælfthryth 10, a noble married woman, 5 hides at Holland, Essex, which she had bought from Sprow 2 for 20 pounds. 263 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.31 / LÆ 41 Eadgifu 4 bought 5 hides at Holland, Essex, from Sprow 2 for 20 pounds. 264 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.31 / LÆ 41 Ælfthryth 10 granted Holland, Essex to Ely 1. 265 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.31 / LÆ 41 Bishop Æthelwold 1 and Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 received the 5 hides at Holland, Essex, from St Paul’s, London, in exchange for 4.5 hides at Milton. (They also made an exchange of stock, but there was an excess at Holland of 100 sheep, 55 pigs, 2 men and 5 head of yoked oxen.) 266 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.32 / LÆ 42 The people of Horningsea [Anonymi 10034] granted to the minster at Horningsea 1 5 hides at Horningsea and 2 at Eye. 267 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.32 / LÆ 42 Cenwald 8 died 268 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.32 / LÆ 42 Wulfric 69, a kinsman of Cenwald 8, the former priest of Horningsea, deprived the minster at Horningsea 1 of two hide at Eye [recte Horningsea]. 269 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.32 / LÆ 42 Certain people stole countless possession of Thorth 3, son of Ealdorman Oslac 7. When they were breaking open his chests, they took out a very fine dagger, decorated with gold and silver. They also removed many garments made of precious fabrics. These they brought to the priest Æthelstan 70 and entrusted them to him. He placed them into chests belonging to Herolf 1 [his kinsman]. Later the stolen property was discovered by chance. Without delay, Thorth 3 was there with the centurionibus et triumviris ac preconibus, and, when the chests belonging to Herolf 1 had been unlocked, he brought to light the stolen goods in the custody of Æthelstan 70. Æthelstan 70 was seized and put in chains, and made to appear before Bishop Oscytel 5. In the meantime, Herolf 1 arrived and, having learnt of Æthelstan 70’s plight, took all the ornaments of the church and went to Wulfstan 16 and gave some to him on condition that he have pity on him and might have charge of the minster all his life. He also gave some to the bishop to prevent Æthelstan 70 from being put to death or stripped of his position. 270 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.32 / LÆ 42 Herolf 1 died. 271 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.32 / LÆ 42 After the death of Herolf 1, priest of Horningsea, and the succession of Æthelstan 70, Bishop Æthelwold 1 bought Horningsea 1 from King Edgar 11 for 50 mancuses. The Wulfstan 16 ordered that Æthelwold 1 should measure the land which the priest Æthelstan 70 held, specifically 3 hides of 12-score acres. Æthelstan 70 then set about seizing Eye for himself and giving testimony that it was rightfully his. He sought out Wulfstan 16 and gave allegiance to him and promised him that he would sell him Eye at whatever price he chose to put on it, provided that he support him against Bishop Æthelwold 1, because the bishop was laying charges against him regarding the treasures of the church, which he and Herolf 1 had removed. In this manner, Wulfstan 16 acquired Eye through the mendacity of a priest and for a small sum of money. 272 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.32 / LÆ 42 Æthelstan 70 then set about seizing Eye for himself and giving testimony that it was rightfully his. He sought out Wulfstan 16 and gave allegiance to him and promised him that he would sell him Eye at whatever price he chose to put on it, provided that he support him against Bishop Æthelwold 1, because the bishop was laying charges against him regarding the treasures of the church, which he and Herolf 1 had removed. 273 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.32 / LÆ 42 After the death of Wulfstan 16, Bishop Æthelwold 1 renewed his claims to Eye which Æthelstan 70, priest, had alienated from Horningsea 1 and sold to Wulfstan 16 in return for protection against the bishop. Æthelstan 70 sought patrons, namely Oswulf 32, Goding 7, and Ealhfrith 9, and many other thegns, to plead his case with the bishop. At their request, the bishop withdrew his claim against Æthelstan 70 as regarded the stolen church treasures of Horningsea 1 on condition that he hand over Eye to Ely 1. Accordingly the priest went to Ely 1 with the bishop and swore upon the altar that neither he nor his successors would ever seek to regain Eye. 274 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.32 / LÆ 42 Wulfric 69 died. 275 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.32 / LÆ 42 Wulfric 69 bequeathed 2 hides at Horningsea to Leofstan 23. 276 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.32 / LÆ 42 Certain traders came from Ireland to Cambridge and laid out their wares and cloaks, when it happened that Leofstan 23, priest, stole their cloaks and sought the protection of the citizens who interceded for his life and property. The priest then gave to Wulfstan 16 his 2 hides at Horningsea together with the charter. 277 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.32 / LÆ 42 Leofstan 23 gave his 2 hides at Horningsea together with the charter to Wulfstan 16 after the people of Cambridge had given him protection against the Irish traders from whom he had stolen 278 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.32 / LÆ 42 Wulfstan 16 granted 2 hides at Horningsea to his kinsman, Æthelstan 71, together with the charter. 279 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.32 / LÆ 42 Wulfstan 16 death. 280 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.32 / LÆ 42 After the death of Wulfstan 16, Bishop Æthelwold 1 bought the 2 hides at Horningsea from Æthelstan 71 for 8 pounds. 281 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.33 After the death of Edgar 11, Leofstan 23 and the son of Wulfric 69 [Anonymous 10055], seized the land at Horningsea. 282 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.33 After the death of Edgar 11, the priest Æthelstan 70 took Eye with violence, breaking the oath which he had sworn to God and to St Æthelthryth. 283 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.33 The priest Æthelstan 70 took Eye with violence, breaking the oath which he had sworn to God and to St Æthelthryth. 284 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.33 Having seized the land at Eye from Ely 1, Æthelstan 70 shared the land with his two brothers: first, he halved it and, after taking the half-share, took another third. 285 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.33 Æthelstan 70 gave Æthelstan 69, son of Manne 1, 2 marks of silver. 286 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.33 Æthelstan 70 gave 2 marks of silver to Osmund 20 and his brothers [Anonymi 10036]. 287 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.33 In view of the fact, therefore, that the priest Æthelstan 70 had afflicted the bishop and the abbot, after the elapse of many years they took counsel with their friends and at length arranged matters so that the priest and his two brothers, Bondo 3 and Ælfstan 74, would be treated together as one, and they arranged a hearing-date at Horningsea. Before the witnesses the abbot then gave Æthelstan 70 for his share of Eye, a farm and a hide of 12 score acres at Snailwell, which he had bought from Wedwine 1, son of Ealdstan 1, for 6 pounds. And he further gave him another farm and 75 acres which he had bought from Hugh 3 and Ælfric 129. And the abbot also gave to Æthelstan 70’s brothers, Bondo 3 and Ælfstan 74, at the same place, 4 pounds and 18 pence, and thus, totally amicably and in the witness of the people, the abbot and Æthelstan 70 and Bondo 3 and Ælfstan 74 were satisfied in every respect, that is to say, concerning the land, the marsh and stock. 288 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.33 Before the witnesses the abbot then gave Æthelstan 70 for his share of Eye, a farm and a hide of 12 score acres at Snailwell, which he had bought from Wedwine 1, son of Ealdstan 1, for 6 pounds. And he further gave him another farm and 75 acres which he had bought from Hugh 3 and Ælfric 129. 289 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.33 The abbot bought from Wedwine 1, son of Ealdstan 1, a farm and a hide of 12 score acres at Snailwell, for 6 pounds. 290 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.33 The abbot bought a farm and 75 acres at ?Snailwell from Hugh 3 and Ælfric 129. 291 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.33 The abbot also gave to Æthelstan 70’s brothers, Bondo 3 and Ælfstan 74, at the same place, 4 pounds and 18 pence [in exchange for their share of the 2 hides at Eye]. 292 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.33 Afterwards, certain brothers, Leofsige 34 and Ælfstan 76 and Wulfgar 38, and Oslac 11, their kinsman by marriage [gener], went to Ealdorman Beorhtnoth 19 and gave him 1 hide which they had acquired, on condition that he give them a hand in obtaining certain land in East Anglia. When he did this, Wulfgar 38 and Oslac 11 made over to him their share of the hide, just as they had promised. But the others completely broke the agreement with him. From those who had broken the agreement, moreover, the abbot and Eadric 58 bought their share in the hide for 4 pounds, in the witness of the people. After these transactions, the priest Leofsige 34 mentioned previously bought from the priest Leofstan 23 1 hide and 1 field for 100 solidi. Even though he had previously broken the agreement which he had had with Ealdorman Beorhtnoth 19, once more he offered him 1 hide as a gift, and another for sale. But, just as before, it was now proved that he was telling lies. When, therefore, Ealdorman Beorhtnoth 19 realised that the priest had deceived him, he ordered him to be summoned and, on coming to Ditton, he there proceeded to set out and explain the actions and claims, agreements and broken compacts which he held against him, by means of the testimony of many lawmen. As Leofsige 34 denied and contradicted all the charges brought against him, they decided that he might clear himself with an oath. Since he could neither do this nor produce those who ought to swear with him, it was decreed that he should be evicted and Ealdorman Beorhtnoth 19 should be given possession of both hides, that is the one which he had promised to give to him and the one which he had promised to sell. This same was decreed a second time on another occasion, at Cambridge. When it was done, Ealdorman Beorhtnoth 19 granted these lands to St Æthelthryth. 293 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.33 Wulfgar 38 and Oslac 11 made over to [Byrhtnoth 1] their share of the hide, just as they had promised. 294 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.33 From those who had broken the agreement [with Byrhtnoth 1], moreover, the abbot and Eadric 58 bought their share in the hide for 4 pounds, in the witness of the people. 295 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.33 The priest Leofsige 34 bought from the priest Leofstan 23 1 hide and 1 field for 100 solidi. 296 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.33 Ealdorman Byrhtnoth 1 granted lands to St Æthelthryth. 297 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.34 King Edgar 11 bought Swaffham and Berlea from Æthelwine 43, son of Æthelweard 54 of Sussex, for 80 mancuses. 298 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.34 Bishop Æthelwold 1 bought Swaffham and Berlea from King Edgar 11 for 80 mancuses. 299 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  II.34 A meeting was held at Whittlesford at which Wynsige 1, kinsman of Wulfric 70, rose and claimed the land at Swaffham saying that he and his kinsmen were being unfairly deprived of the land, because they had nothing for it, that is, neither land nor the money-equivalent of land. When this claim had been heard, Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 asked whether anyone among the people knew how Wulfstan 57 had acquired the land. Ælfric 122 of Witcham said that Wulfstan 57 had bought it from Wynsige 1 for 8 pounds. And so that what he had said might be believed, he bought in, for purposes of testimony, eight hundreds from the southern part of Cambridgeshire. He said, furthermore, that Wulfstan 57 had given Wynsige 1 the 8 pounds in 2 instalments, but sent the last part of the money and the last penny to him through Leofwine 77, son of Æthulf 4, who gave him the money wrapped in a glove, in the sight of the eight hundreds in which the land referred to had, perchance, been situated. Accordingly, once these matters had been heard about, they made the decision that the bishop and abbot should have the 2 hides at Swaffham free from any claim. If, moreover, Wynsige 1, or his kinsmen had been wishing to exact money, they should have exacted it from the heirs of Wulfstan 57 and not from anyone else. Afterwards Bishop Æthelwold 1 and Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 granted these 2 hides and 70 acres to Eadric 58 on condition that he leave it to Ely with all its stock and equipment. 300 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.34 Ælfric 122 of Witcham said that Wulfstan 57 had bought it from Wynsige 1 for 8 pounds. And so that what he had said might be believed, he bought in, for purposes of testimony, eight hundreds from the southern part of Cambridgeshire. He said, furthermore, that Wulfstan 57 had given Wynsige 1 the 8 pounds in 2 instalments, but sent the last part of the money and the last penny to him through Leofwine 77, son of Æthulf 122, who gave him the money wrapped in a glove, in the sight of the eight hundreds in which the land referred to had, perchance, been situated. 301 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  II.34 Accordingly, once these matters had been heard about, they made the decision that the bishop and abbot should have the 2 hides at Swaffham free from any claim. If, moreover, Wynsige 1, or his kinsmen had been wishing to exact money, they should have exacted it from the heirs of Wulfstan 57 and not from anyone else. Afterwards Bishop Æthelwold 1 and Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 granted these 2 hides and 70 acres to Eadric 58 on condition that he leave it to Ely with all its stock and equipment. 302 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.34 / LÆ 46 Ælfgar 57 of Milton bequeathed to Wulfstan 16 of Dalham five hides at Brandon and Livermere. 303 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.34 / LÆ 46 Wulfstan 16 granted 5 hides at Brandon and Livermere to his kinsman, Wihtgar 11. 304 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.34 / LÆ 46 When the leading men of England had gathered at London, that same Wihtgar 11 offered to sell the land to Bishop Æthelwold 1. When they heard this the bishop and abbot gave him fifteen pounds for the land in the witness of Leofric 24, the son of Æthelfrith 23, and Ufi 7 of Willingham. They afterwards sent him a hundred shillings by the reeve Leofwine 96 and Wine 11 of Witchford. These men gave him the money at Brandon in the witness of the whole hundred in which the land is situated. They further bought from Wihtgar all the stock which was on the land, in accordance with its assessed value. 305 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.34 / LÆ 46 Ingulf 3 seized Brandon from Ely. 'But in demonstration of the power of God and the virtue of the blessed virgin Æthelthryth, he took nothing of food or drink from that day on which he usurped the property of the church, for his heart burst at once. ... After his death, his wife and sons took possession of the land in similar manner, but just as they did not honour God and did not save their souls, so the divine vengeance burst upon them and they all perished miserably within a year. Then Sigefrith 25, the brother of Ingulf 3, gave his land to the bishop against the wishes of Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 and many others.' 306 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.34 / LÆ 46 Sigefrith 25, gave Brandon (which his brother Ingulf 3 had seized from Ely), to the bishop against the wishes of Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 and many others. 307 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.34 / LÆ 46 Ingulf 3 died of a heart attack. His wife and children died shortly afterwards. 308 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.36 / LÆ 48 Ælfgar 57 bought every eighth acre in Brandon and three hides at Livermere from a certain earl, called Scule 3, for two horses and two woollen cloaks and fifty mancuses. 309 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.37 / LÆ 49 King Edgar 11 and Ælfthryth 8 gave St Æthelwold 1 an estate called Sudbourne, together with the charter for the land, which Earl Scule 3 had once held, on condition that he translate the Rule of St Benedict from Latin into English. He did this. Then the blessed Æthelwold 1 gave this land with its charter to St Æthelthryth (Ely 1). 310 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.37 / LÆ 49 Æthelwold 1 translated the Rule of St Benedict from Latin into English. 311 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.38 / LÆ 50 The blessed Æthelwold 1 bought three hides at Woodbridge, with the appurtenances which belonged to it, from Wulfflæd 8, the widow of Wulfstan 57, for fifteen pounds in the witness of the whole hundred. 312 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.39 / LÆ 51 A woman called Ælfthryth 11 pleaded with King Edgar 11 that he sell to the blessed Æthelwold 1 ten hides at Stoke, which is near Ipswich, and two mills which are situated in the southern part. The king was moved by her entreaties, for the bishop gave the king one hundred mancuses for the land and afterwards presented the land and the mills to St Æthelthryth. 313 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.40 Æthelwold 1 granted Dereham to Ely which had been given to him by King Edgar 11. 314 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.40 Æthelwold 1 asked King Edgar 11 to grant him the land at Dereham, this the king did. 315 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.41 / LÆ 52 At one time the bishop and the abbot and Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 made an agreement among themselves that Æthelwine 2 should hold from them Sudbourne and Stoke and Woodbridge and six hundreds which belong to Sudbourne. He did so and paid them ten pounds for these lands every year at the due time of the rogation days. 316 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.42 / LÆ 53 Thurfrith 9 took twelve hides at Northwold from God and St Æthelthryth by force. 317 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.42 / LÆ 53 Æthelwold 1 gave King Edgar 11 Harting in exchange for the land at Northwold. 318 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.42 / LÆ 53 Thurfrith 9 seized Pulham from God and St Æthelthryth. 319 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.43 / LÆ 54 On account of a crime Waldchist 1 lost these lands, that is Northwold and Pulham, and all that he had in the time of King Edmund 14, and they were in the control of King Edmund 14 and Æthelred [recte Eadred 16], until Æthelred [recte Eadred 16] gave them to his mother Eadgifu 4. 320 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.43 / LÆ 54 Eadred 16 granted Northwold and Pulham to his mother, Eadgifu 4. 321 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.43 / LÆ 54 Wulfstan 62 acquired Northwold and Pulham from King Edgar 11. 322 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.43 / LÆ 54 Æthelwold 1 bought Northwold and Pulham from King Edgar 11 for 40 pounds. 323 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.44 / LÆ 55 Bishop Æthelwold 1 bought three hides at Weeting from Æthelweard 59 for six pounds. But then a certain person called Steapa 1 exercised his powers to such an extent that the bishop lacked both, that is the land and the money. 324 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.45 / LÆ 56 Bishop Æthelwold 1 bought two hides at Horningsea from Æthelstan 76, the brother of Æthelweard 59, for eight pounds. 325 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.46 / LÆ 57 Bishop Æthelwold 1 bought Gransden from Heanric 2 of Wantage for two hundred mancuses. ... And that agreement was made before them all with the stipulation that, if anyone ever at another time wished to make a claim to that land, Heanric 2 and his heirs would pay two hundred mancuses to the bishop, and they themselves would bear the quarrel with the claimants. 326 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.47 / LÆ 58 King Edgar 11 and Ælfthryth 8 granted the land at Marsworth to Ely. 327 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.48 / LÆ 59 Bishop Æthelwold 1 bought from Eadric 73 the Dane his land at Kelling for twenty pounds, and he bought the stock which was there for eleven pounds. Accordingly, Eadric received a hundred shillings from the bishop at Ely in front of the hundred, and Æthelsige 49, who was at that time the reeve of the bishop, took to him the fifteen pounds which remained, and gave them to him before the three hundreds within which Kelling lies. And present there were Wulfstan 16 of Dalham and Hringwulf 1 and nearly all the leading men of those parts. And the money was given to Eadric 73 there in the witness of the three hundreds. 328 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.49 / LÆ 60 After the death of King Edgar 11, when King Edward 12 and almost all his councillors were at Kingston, Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 asked Bishop Æthelwold 1 to let him have Kelling on the understanding that in exchange Æthelwine 2 would give him land of the same area which was closer to him and more fertile. Concerning the stock which was on the land they might do as they wished. When the bishop and the abbot had agreed to this, Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 conveyed the land to Hringwulf 1. Then the bishop and the abbot asked Æthelwine 2 to buy from the sons of Wulfric 69 and arrange for them to hold free from claim the two hides at Horningsea which, as we have said before, the bishop had bought from Æthelstan 71. When he heard this, Æthelwine 2, properly, began ever promising that he would do this, but his words had no weight and nothing came of his promises. 329 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.49a / LÆ 60 Bishop Æthelwold 1 bought two hides at Kensworth from Leofsige 42, one of his leading men, for four pounds. The land is in Bedfordshire and belongs to Houghton. Abbot Beorhtnoth 19 accordingly gave Leofsige 42 the first part of the money, that is sixty shillings, at Hatfield in the witness of Ælfweard 44 of Stodham. Then indeed, when Leofsige 42 died, the abbot arranged that the twenty shillings which remained should be given to and shared among the clerks for the good of his soul. But Leofsige 42’s heriot went unpaid and had not been given to the bishop. In this way the bishop bought the land, but it was lost to him through pillage and violence. 330 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.49b / LÆ 60 A hide and a half were lost to Æthelwold 1 at Armingford which had been rendered liable to forfeiture for fighting and theft. 331 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.58 King Æthelred 32 to Ely; grant of 20 mansae at Littlebury. 332 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.59 Æthelgifu 18 to Ely; bequest of land at Thaxted. 333 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.60 Leofwine 77 killed his mother with a log. 334 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.60 Leofwine 77 travelled to Rome to make amends for having killed his mother. The Pope ordered that he should give his first-born son to a poor little church as a monk and richly endow it. 335 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.60 Leofwine 77 gave his son, Æthelmær 43, to Ely along with Kingston, the Rodings, Undley, Lakenheath, a third part of Whittlesey, Eastrea, Cottenham, part of London called Abboteshai, Glemsford, the fishery at Upstaue, and an annual food-rent from the royal estate at Hatfield, and other grants besides. Abbot Ælfsige 82 swore in front of Archbishop Wulfstan 41 and others that this land would never be alienated from Ely. 336 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.60 Leofwine 77 enlarged the walls of the church of Ely, and built them at a wider distance away to the south and he brought them to a state of completeness at his own expense, in which they were united with the rest of the building. He also made in one porticus an altar to honour the most blessed Mother of God and, above it, a throne the height of a man, on which was seen a statue of Mary holding her son in her lap, made of gold and silver and jewels. 337 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.61 Ælfwaru 6 bequeathed to Ely: Bridgham, Hingham, Weeting, Rattlesden, Mundford, and fisheries around Thetford, a shrine with relics, and two crosses of gold, silver and jewels. 338 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.60 Leofwine 77 was buried at Ely. 339 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.61 Ælfwaru 6 was buried at Ely. 340 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.62 On his way to Maldon, Byrhtnoth 1 stopped at Ramsey and asked Abbot Wulfsige 46 for hospitality and provisions. The abbot said he would he provide for Byrhtnoth 1 and seven of his men to which Byrhtnoth 1 replied that he would not dine without his men because he could not fight without them. He then turned to Ely and asked Abbot Ælfsige 82 if they could dine with him, and his request was accepted. 341 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.62 On his way to Maldon, Byrhtnoth 1 granted Ely 1: Spaldwick, Trumpington, Rettendon, Hesberie, Soham, and Occold. He also granted Fulbourn, Teversham, Impington, Pampisford, Croxton, Finborough, Triplow, Hardwick, and Somersham with 30 mancuses of gold and 20 pounds of silver on condition that if he was killed in battle they should bury his body at Ely. He also gave two gold crosses and two borders of his cloak woven with costly work in gold and gems, and a pair of skilfully made gloves. 342 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.62 Byrhtnoth 1 was killed at the Battle of Maldon. 343 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.62 Byrhtnoth 1 was buried at Ely. 344 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.63 Ælfflæd 13, at the time of her husband's death and burial, granted to Ely, an estate at Rettendon, which formed part of her marriage-portion, and land at Soham, Ditton, Cheveley, and a golden torque and a hanging woven upon and embroidered with the deeds of her husband. 345 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.64 Æthelflæd 14 granted Ditton, Hadham and Kelshall to Ely in her will. 346 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.65 Bishop Æthelstan 56 granted Drinkstone to Ely on the condition that he could be buried there. 347 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.65 Bishop Æthelstan 56 was buried at Ely. 348 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.66 Ufi 7 granted Willingham and Cottenham to Ely. 349 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.67 Oswig 14 and Leofflæd 5 granted their son, Ælfwine 85, to Ely along with: Stetchworth, March, Kirtling, Dullingham, and 1 virgate at Swaffham. 350 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.68 Æthelric 87 gave his son, Æthelmær 44 to be a monk at Ely. He also granted Chedburgh to the house as shoe-land. 351 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.69 Godwine 73 was terminally ill and so requested that Abbot Ælfsige 82 make him a monk. In return, he granted Hoo to Ely. 352 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.69 Godwine 73 was buried in the cemetery of the church at Ely. 353 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.70 Ælfmær 24 granted the land at Hitcham to Ely. 354 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.70 Archbishop Oswald 8 and Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 made Eadnoth 11 abbot in the church of Ramsey. 355 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.71 Bishop Eadnoth 11 built the church at Chatteris for Mary, Mother of God, and for love of his sister Ælfwynn 7. 356 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.71 Ælfheah 44 was stoned to death by the Danes at Greenwich. 357 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.71 Ælfheah 44's body was collected from Greenwich where he had been killed by the Danes and taken to London by Eadnoth 11 who buried him there. 358 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.71 Eadnoth 11 was buried at Ely by Bishop Ælfgar 31 (then retired) whilst those guarding his body were drunk. 359 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.72 Ælfgar 31 was buried at Ely. 360 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.73 Ælfhelm 8 bequeathed two hides at Wratting to Ely. 361 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.74 The parents of Leofsige 40, the future abbot of Ely, granted him to the monastery along with: Glemsford, Hartest, Barking, Feltwell, Shelford, Snailwell. 362 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.75 When Ælfwine 47 was made an oblate of Ely, his parents granted to the monastery the estates of: Walpole, Wisbech, which constitutes a quarter of the hundred of the Isle, Debenham, Brightwell, and Woodbridge. 363 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.81 Godgifu 4 granted Easter, Fambridge, and Terling to Ely. 364 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.81 Godgifu 4 granted Barking, Essex, to Ely. 365 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.88 Leofflæd 9 was buried at Ely. 366 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.88 Æthelswith 6 scorned alliance with a husband and surrendered herself to Ely along with Stetchworth. In return she received the land at Coveney where she lived. 367 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.88 Leofwaru 2 granted Wetheringsett to Ely. 368 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.89 Lustwine 2 and Leofwaru 2 bequeathed Ditton, Knapwell, Little Burch, Weston, Kedington, Pentlow, Wimbish, Yardley, Hanningfield, and Ashdon to Ely. 369 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.93 Victor 1 confirmed the liberties of Ely. 370 Transaction Anon.LiberEliensis    Asgar 1 seized the vill of Easter from Ely. 371 Event Anon.LiberEliensis  LE II.96 Asgar 1 seized the land at Ely from Ely. Abbot Wulfric 71 and the monks agreed that he should be allowed to hold it for his lifetime on the understanding that it reverted to Ely.