Pre-Conquest Anglo-Saxon Charters
Grant of a Moneyer at Bury - 1065 AD

Showing the Old English text, its sources, and a summary of its authenticity according to several authors.
The reference number S 1085 refers to P. H. Sawyer's catalogue of Anglo-Saxon charters dated 1968.

S 1085

A.D. 1065 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Abbot Baldwin a moneyer within Bury St Edmunds. English.

Archive: Bury St Edmunds

MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Ee. 3. 60, 127r (s, xiv)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 23r (s. xiii2)
3. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 102v (s. xv)
4. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4, 271r (s. xv)
5. BL Add. 14847, 31r (s. xiv)
6. BL Harley 638, 26r (s. xiv)
7. PRO Chart. Ant. R. 15, no. 4 (s. xiii)
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: Battely 1745, p. 134 ex MS 2; K 875 ex MS 6; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 138 (no. 8) ex MS 2; Thorpe, p. 415; Hervey 1925, i. 296 ex MS 1; Harmer, Writs, no. 25 (p. 165) ex MS 7, with translation; Conway Davies 1957, p. 88 ex MS 7.

Comments: Davis 1909, p. 420; Harmer, Writs, pp. 150-1, 444-6, authentic; Hart, ECEE, no. 119, authentic; Chaplais 1966, p. 19, probably drafted at Bury (= 1981, XV p. 19); Gransden 1985, p. 12; Pelteret 1995, pp. 281-2.

Eadward cyng gret æigelmer biscop 7 Georð eorl 7 ealle mine þegenas on æstengle freondlice. 7 ic cyðe eou þæt ic habbe geunnen Baldwine abbote onne menetere wið inne Seint Eadmundes byrig al swa freolice on ealle þing to habben al swa me mine on hande stonden ower on enig minre burge alre freolukeost. God seo eow alre freond.


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