S 1241
A.D. 1066 x 1075. Writ of Queen Edith, declaring that she has given to Bishop Giso for his canons at St Andrew's, Wells, the land at Mark, Somerset. She requests a judgement on Wuduman, to whom she entrusted her horses and who has withheld rent for six years. English and Latin versions.
Archive: Wells
MSS: Wells, D. & C., Liber Albus I, 17v (s. xiii; both versions)
Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 162; K 918; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 287 (no. 7); Thorpe, p. 427; Harmer, Writs, no. 72 (pp. 285-6), with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 274-5, 491, authenticity reasonably certain; Finberg, ECW, no. 545, authentic; Wormald 1988, no. 95; Crosby 1994, pp. 48-50.
Eadgyþ seo hlauedi Eadwardes kynges lefe gret al þat hundred at Wedmore frendliche. And ich cyþe eow þat ic habbe gegefen Gyso biscop þat land at Merkerun & alch þare þinga þæs þe þar mid richte to hireð into his canonican æt Sancte Andrea æt Wyllan mid saca & mid socna swo full & swo forð swo hit me sylfen on honde stod for Eadwardes kynges sawle & for mine sawle. And ic bidde eow þat ge deme me richtne dom of Wudemann þe ic min hors bitachte & mi gauel haueð ofhealden six gear eiðer ge hunig & eac feoch. God ew gehealde.