S 1462a
c. A.D. 1017 x 1027 (Lichfield). Declaration that Godwine, son of Earwig, has been cleared of the accusation of unrihtwife brought by Leofgar, bishop [of Lichfield]. English.
Archive: Lichfield
MSS: Lichfield, Cathedral Library, 'Gospels of St Chad', p. 4 (s. xi1; Zimmermann 1916, plate 245)
Printed: Hickes, Diss. Epist., p. 11; Wanley, Catalogus, p. 289; K 803; Thorpe, p. 373; Earle, pp. 236-7; Ker, Catalogue, p. 158; Heyworth, Wanley, p. 142.
Comments: Ker, Catalogue, no. 123 (p. 158), contemporary; Wormald 1988, no. 78, dates are the outside limits of Leofgar's episcopate; Heyworth, Wanley, p. 142.
Her sutelað an þæt godwine earwiges sunu hæfþ gelæd fulle lade æt þan unrihtwife þe leofgar bisceop hyne tihte. 7 þæt wæs læd æt licitfelda