Grant of the Eight and a Half Hundreds 1044
The reference number S 1069 refers to P. H. Sawyer's catalogue of Anglo-Saxon charters dated 1968.
S 1069
A.D. 1043 x 1044. Writ of King Edward declaring that the land at Mildenhall, Suffolk, and the sokes of the eight and a half Thingoe hundreds are to belong to St Edmunds as fully and completely as his mother (Queen Ælfgifu) possessed them. English.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Add. 4220, 61r (s. xv)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Ee. 3. 60, 127r (s. xiv)
3. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 22r (s. xiii2)
4. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 102v (s. xv)
5. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 271r (s. xv)
6. BL Harley 638, 26r (s. xiv)
7. BL Harley 743, 59r (s. xiv)
8. PRO Ch.R. 8 Edw. II, no. 11
9. PRO Ch.R. 4 Edw. III, no. 58
10. PRO Ch.R. 7-8 Ric. II, no. 11
11. PRO Ch.R. 1 Hen. IV, pt 2, no. 2
12. PRO Ch.R. 1 Hen. V, pt 2, no. 6
13. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI, pt 2, m. 38
14. PRO Pat. R. 2 Edw. IV, pt 6, m. 21
15. PRO Conf. R. 6, no. 9 (s. xv)
16. PRO Conf. R. 14, no. 10 (s. xv)
17. PRO Conf. R. 53, no. 5 (s. xvi)
18. Bodleian, Gough Cambridge 22, 13v (s. xiv)
Printed: K 832 ex MS 3; Hervey 1907, p. 610, with translation, p. 611; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 44; Hervey 1925, i. 296 ex MS 2; Harmer, Writs, no. 9 (pp. 154-5) ex MS 6, with translation.
Comments: Davis 1909, pp. 418-19; Harmer, Writs, pp. 145-7, 435-7, authentic; Hart, ECEE, no. 106, authentic.
Eædward cyng gret Grymkytel biscop 7 ælfwine 7 ælfric 7 ealle mine þegenas on Suðfolce freondlice.
& ic cyðe eou þæt ic wille þæt þæt land æt Mildenhale 7 þa nigen half hundreda socne in to Þinghogy licgce in to Sancte Eædmunde mid sace 7 mid socne swa ful 7 swa forð swa hit minre meder on hande stod.
& ic nelle geðafian þæt heom ænig mann ætbrede ænig þare þinga þæs þe ic heom ær geuðe.